This enables misaligned access handling even in kernel mode.
Some wireless drivers (ath9k-htc and mt7601u) use misaligned accesses
here and there and to cope with that without fixing stuff in the drivers
we're just gracefully handling it on ARC.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrod...@synopsys.com>
Cc: John Crispin <j...@phrozen.org>
---
arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c b/arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c
index abd961f3e763..58b7415e47ca 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c
@@ -205,8 +205,8 @@ int misaligned_fixup(unsigned long address, struct pt_regs
*regs,
struct disasm_state state;
char buf[TASK_COMM_LEN];
- /* handle user mode only and only if enabled by sysadmin */
- if (!user_mode(regs) || !unaligned_enabled)
+ /* handle only if enabled by sysadmin */
+ if (!unaligned_enabled)
return 1;
if (no_unaligned_warning) {
--
2.7.4
