Patch "rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
rtlwifi-fix-alignment-issues.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Ping-Ke Shih <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:40:04 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues

From: Ping-Ke Shih <[email protected]>

commit 40b368af4b750863b2cb66a3a9513241db2f0793 upstream.

The addresses of Wlan NIC registers are natural alignment, but some drivers have bugs. These are evident on platforms that need natural alignment to access registers. This change contains the following:
1. Function _rtl8821ae_dbi_read() is used to read one byte from DBI, thus it should use rtl_read_byte().
2. Register 0x4C7 of 8192ee is single byte.

---
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/hw.c |    2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ static void _rtl92ee_hw_configure(struct
 	rtl_write_word(rtlpriv, REG_SIFS_TRX, 0x100a);
 
 	/* Note Data sheet don't define */
-	rtl_write_word(rtlpriv, 0x4C7, 0x80);
+	rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, 0x4C7, 0x80);
 
 	rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, REG_RX_PKT_LIMIT, 0x20);
 

@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ static u8 _rtl8821ae_dbi_read(struct rtl
 	}
 	if (0 == tmp) {
 		read_addr = REG_DBI_RDATA + addr % 4;
-		ret = rtl_read_word(rtlpriv, read_addr);
+		ret = rtl_read_byte(rtlpriv, read_addr);
 	}
 	return ret;
 }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/rtlwifi-fix-alignment-issues.patch