Re: [PATCH v2 10/13] mwifiex: re-fix for unaligned accesses

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 8:22 AM Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > A patch from 2017 changed some accesses to DMA memory to use
> > get_unaligned_le32() and similar interfaces, to avoid problems
> > with doing unaligned accesson uncached memory.
> >
> > However, the change in the mwifiex_pcie_alloc_sleep_cookie_buf()
> > function ended up changing the size of the access instead,
> > as it operates on a pointer to u8.
> >
> > Change this function back to actually access the entire 32 bits.
> > Note that the pointer is aligned by definition because it came
> > from dma_alloc_coherent().
> >
> > Fixes: 92c70a958b0b ("mwifiex: fix for unaligned reads")
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Via which tree should this go? I assume it will go via some other tree
> so:
>
> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I have queued the series in the asm-generic tree for 5.14, as the patches
that depend on this one are a little too invasive for 5.13 at this point.

If you think this fix should be in 5.13, please take it through your tree.

        Arnd