From 51839840d1888aa8a62d1abc2d39e5cb019bca72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Metcalf Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 12:09:21 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] connector: improved unaligned access error fix [ Upstream commit 1ca1a4cf59ea343a1a70084fe7cc96f37f3cf5b1 ] In af3e095a1fb4, Erik Jacobsen fixed one type of unaligned access bug for ia64 by converting a 64-bit write to use put_unaligned(). Unfortunately, since gcc will convert a short memset() to a series of appropriately-aligned stores, the problem is now visible again on tilegx, where the memset that zeros out proc_event is converted to three 64-bit stores, causing an unaligned access panic. A better fix for the original problem is to ensure that proc_event is aligned to 8 bytes here. We can do that relatively easily by arranging to start the struct cn_msg aligned to 8 bytes and then offset by 4 bytes. Doing so means that the immediately following proc_event structure is then correctly aligned to 8 bytes. The result is that the memset() stores are now aligned, and as an added benefit, we can remove the put_unaligned() calls in the code. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-format-patch failed