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authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>2013-09-18 21:21:35 -0500
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2013-10-26 21:06:06 +0100
commite9c2770cfd8038419657e596410ce42bdb2e1a5b (patch)
tree9a6fafb29ba4cb1bea32cb5a028a298b3276fb15 /drivers
parent571d473b0b99c8035fa8df8d1fbbac5b00814bb6 (diff)
rtlwifi: Align private space in rtl_priv struct
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 <jasona@cadence.com> Tested-by: Jason Andrews <jasona@cadence.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
index deb87e959e02..82baaa25dc41 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@ 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))