[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "rtlwifi: Align private space in rtl_priv struct" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rtlwifi: Align private space in rtl_priv struct

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.11.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From c976313c119b2590401bb6a93d58ad3dea380d29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:21:35 -0500
Subject: 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 at cadence.com>
Tested-by: Jason Andrews <jasona at cadence.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
index 21a5f4f..a382f95 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/wifi.h
@@ -1871,7 +1871,7 @@ 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))
--
1.8.1.2