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Patch "net: qca_spi: Fix alignment issues in rx path" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

PATCH [email protected] 1 participant 1 message Apr 10, 2018

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

net: qca_spi: Fix alignment issues in rx path

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:
net-qca_spi-fix-alignment-issues-in-rx-path.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.

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From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018

From: Stefan Wahren <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 15:40:38 +0200
Subject: net: qca_spi: Fix alignment issues in rx path

From: Stefan Wahren <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 8d66c30b12ed3cb533696dea8b9a9eadd5da426a ]

The qca_spi driver causes alignment issues on ARM devices. So fix this by using netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align().

Signed-off-by Stefan Wahren <[email protected]>
Fixes 291ab06ecf67 ("net: qualcomm: new Ethernet over SPI driver for QCA7000")
Signed-off-by David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c +6 -4
@@ -296,8 +296,9 @@ qcaspi_receive(struct qcaspi *qca)
 
 	/* Allocate rx SKB if we don't have one available. */
 	if (!qca->rx_skb) {
-		qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb(net_dev,
-					       net_dev->mtu + VLAN_ETH_HLEN);
+		qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(net_dev,
+							net_dev->mtu +
+							VLAN_ETH_HLEN);
 		if (!qca->rx_skb) {
 			netdev_dbg(net_dev, "out of RX resources\n");
 			qca->stats.out_of_mem++;

@@ -377,7 +378,7 @@ qcaspi_receive(struct qcaspi *qca)
 					qca->rx_skb, qca->rx_skb->dev);
 				qca->rx_skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
 				netif_rx_ni(qca->rx_skb);
-				qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb(net_dev,
+				qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(net_dev,
 					net_dev->mtu + VLAN_ETH_HLEN);
 				if (!qca->rx_skb) {
 					netdev_dbg(net_dev, "out of RX resources\n");

@@ -759,7 +760,8 @@ qcaspi_netdev_init(struct net_device *de
 	if (!qca->rx_buffer)
 		return -ENOBUFS;
 
-	qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, qca->net_dev->mtu + VLAN_ETH_HLEN);
+	qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(dev, qca->net_dev->mtu +
+						VLAN_ETH_HLEN);
 	if (!qca->rx_skb) {
 		kfree(qca->rx_buffer);
 		netdev_info(qca->net_dev, "Failed to allocate RX sk_buff.\n");

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

queue-4.4/net-qca_spi-fix-alignment-issues-in-rx-path.patch