Misaligned Multicast Message

Altera_Forum · ‎09-13-2012

I get a misaliged memory trap in the network stack and am posting here to see if anyone has seen a similar problem.

I have a complex MicroC/OS-II multi-task application that uses multicast messages occasionally to report status. The application responds to a finger message with a multicast response.

The application is up for hours and processes hundreds if not thousands of these messages. Then with no correlation to other network activity I can discern I get a multicast message that gets a misaligned memory failure deep in the network stack. The call trace at the memory trap is below.

Send_Mcast is my routine responding to the finger. The rest of the routines are from the iniche libraries. Send_Mcast calls send which via a macro becomes t_sendto. Many layers down I get a NIOS2_READ_EXCEPTION with cause 6 which is NIOS2_EXCEPTION_MISALIGNED_DATA_ADDR.

ROUTINE::::::::::: CODE in ROUTINE

Send_Mcast::::::: if (sendto(sock, (void *)pB, size, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&destAddr, sizeof(destAddr)) < 0) {

t_sendto::::::::::: err = sosend(so, name, buf, &sendlen, flags);

sosend::::::::::::: error = (*so->so_proto->pr_usrreq)(so, head, nam);

udp_usrreq::::::::: return udp4_socksend(so, m, nam );

udp4_socksend:::: e = udp_send(fport, udpconn->u_lport, pkt);

udp_send::::::::::: e = ip_write(UDP_PROT, p);

ip_write::::::::::::: return (ip_write_internal(p));

ip_write_internal::: inm = lookup_mcast(p->fhost, p->net);

lookup_mcast::::::: if(imp->inm_addr == addr) { /// this traps.

Altera_Forum · ‎09-18-2012

Further investigation shows that sending multicast messages in the face of network traffic gets a failure. I created code that sends a multicast message once a second. This code gets the illegal memory trap described here after 10 to 20 attempts.