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

    rtlwifi: Align private space in rtl_priv struct

to the 3.11-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-align-private-space-in-rtl_priv-struct.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.

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


>From 60ce314d1750fef843e9db70050e09e49f838b69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:21:35 -0500
Subject: rtlwifi: Align private space in rtl_priv struct

From: Larry Finger <[email protected]>

commit 60ce314d1750fef843e9db70050e09e49f838b69 upstream.

The private array at the end of the rtl_priv struct is not aligned.
On ARM architecture, this causes an alignment trap and is fixed by aligning
that array with __align(sizeof(void *)). That should properly align that
space according to the requirements of all architectures.

Reported-by: Jason Andrews <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jason Andrews <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
@@ -2057,7 +2057,7 @@ struct rtl_priv {
           that it points to the data allocated
           beyond  this structure like:
           rtl_pci_priv or rtl_usb_priv */
-       u8 priv[0];
+       u8 priv[0] __aligned(sizeof(void *));
 };
 
 #define rtl_priv(hw)           (((struct rtl_priv *)(hw)->priv))


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

queue-3.11/rtlwifi-align-private-space-in-rtl_priv-struct.patch
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