Re: [PATCH] pci: Fix unaligned accesses in VC code.

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 11:52:25PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> The save/restore buffers for VC state is first composed of a 2-byte
> control register, then a bunch of 4-byte words.
> 
> This causes unaligned accesses which trap on platform such as sparc.
> 
> This is easy to fix by simply moving the buffer pointer forward by 4
> bytes instead of 2 after dealing with the control register.  The
> length adjustment needs to be changed likewise as well.
> 
> Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
> Reported-by: Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Applied to for-linus for v4.7, thanks.

I'm pretty sure this problem was introduced by 5f8fc43217a0 ("PCI:
Include pci/pcie/Kconfig directly from pci/Kconfig"), which appeared
in v4.6.  This effectively made PCIe services, including VC, available
on sparc. 

I added a stable tag for v4.6.

> diff --git a/drivers/pci/vc.c b/drivers/pci/vc.c
> index dfbab61..1fa3a32 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/vc.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/vc.c
> @@ -221,9 +221,9 @@ static int pci_vc_do_save_buffer(struct pci_dev *dev, int pos,
>  		else
>  			pci_write_config_word(dev, pos + PCI_VC_PORT_CTRL,
>  					      *(u16 *)buf);
> -		buf += 2;
> +		buf += 4;
>  	}
> -	len += 2;
> +	len += 4;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If we have any Low Priority VCs and a VC Arbitration Table Offset
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