Re: [PATCH] tpm/tpm_crb: Avoid unaligned reads in crb_recv():

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Mon Feb 04 2019 - 06:47:31 EST


On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 09:49:05AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 3:33 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
> <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Thus, it makes sense to fix this also in tpm_crb, not least because
> > the fix can be then backported to stable kernels and make them more robust
> > when compiled in differing environments.
>
> Ack, looks sane to me, and should help both the backport and probably
> generate better code too.
>
> In the meantime, I've committed the iomem.c change with a *long*
> commit message. For all we know, there might be other cases like this
> lurking somewhere else that just happened to work. Plus it's the right
> thing to do anyway.
>
> Linus

Great!

Umh, so, should my tpm_crb change committed to 5.0 with the minor changes
implemented suggested by Tomas or not? Can also include it to my 5.1 PR.
Either WFM.

/Jarkko