Patch "net: qca_spi: Fix alignment issues in rx path" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "net: qca_spi: Fix alignment issues in rx path" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

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 4.9-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:
     net-qca_spi-fix-alignment-issues-in-rx-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Mon Apr  9 17:09:24 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
@@ -296,8 +296,9 @@ 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++;
@@ -377,7 +378,7 @@ 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");
@@ -759,7 +760,8 @@ 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-4.9/net-qca_spi-fix-alignment-issues-in-rx-path.patch