Subject: Re: [PROBLEM]: potential unaligned memory access in drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c

From: Harvey Harrison <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:51:37 -0700

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:51 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Maybe the below fixed this?  afacit it is queued for 2.6.30 in the
> net-next tree: 
> 
> commit 35c26c2cf6a6a2d1c48add732d8ba002bd90784c
> Author:     Harvey Harrison <[email-masked]>
> AuthorDate: Sat Feb 14 22:56:56 2009 -0800
> Commit:     David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
> CommitDate: Sat Feb 14 22:56:56 2009 -0800
> 
>     rndis: remove private wrapper of __constant_cpu_to_le32
>     
>     Use cpu_to_le32 directly as it handles constant folding now, replace direct
>     uses of __constant_cpu_to_{endian} as well.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[email-masked]>
>     Acked-by: David Brownell <[email-masked]>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
> 

Doubtful, this patch should be a no-op, any alignment problems that existed
before will still be there.

Harvey