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 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: net-qca_spi-fix-alignment-issues-in-rx-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 13:58:07 CEST 2018
From: Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren@i2se.com Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 15:40:38 +0200 Subject: net: qca_spi: Fix alignment issues in rx path
From: Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren@i2se.com
[ 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 stefan.wahren@i2se.com Fixes: 291ab06ecf67 ("net: qualcomm: new Ethernet over SPI driver for QCA7000") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c @@ -297,8 +297,9 @@ 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++; @@ -378,7 +379,7 @@ 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"); @@ -760,7 +761,8 @@ 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 stefan.wahren@i2se.com are
queue-3.18/net-qca_spi-fix-alignment-issues-in-rx-path.patch