Thanks for fixing this bug. Your patch works but it's not the right
way to do it.
The original code here adds 4 to pointers which are currently
aligned instead of leaving them as is. We have a kernel ALIGN()
macro which works correctly, but actually, it's not needed.
On arm, the pointer returned from kmalloc() is already aligned at
the 8 byte boundary because "#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8". The
original code always adds 4 to the pointer so everything is
misaligned.
Your patch adds another 4 bytes so it is now aligned at the 8 byte
boundary again. That works, of course, but it's better to remove
the whole mess.
pstapriv->pallocated_stainfo_buf = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sta_info) *
NUM_STA);
Get rid of the ->pstainfo_buf pointer which is only used to store
the "aligned" version of ->pallocated_stainfo_buf.
Please send a version which applies with "git am" and has the proper
sign-off. Sent it to yourself first. Save the raw email (including
headers and everything).
cat raw_email.txt | git am
Type "git log -p" to verify that the commit message looks good.
Then resend it to the list.
Thanks again. This is a good bugfix.
regards,
dan carpenter
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