On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 01:42:36AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Tuesday, May 26, 2020, Jens Thoms Toerring <j...@toerring.de> wrote: > > > The assembly and disassembly of data to be sent to or received from a > > device invoke functions (regmap_format_XXX() and regmap_parse_XXX()) > > that extract or insert data items into a buffer. In some cases these > > functions are invoked with buffer pointers with odd addresses but try > > to directly assign from or to those address. On architectures with > > strict alignment requirements this leads to kernel crashes for u16 and > > u32 values. The assignments have are replaced by memcpy() calls. > > > > > Don't we have put_/get_unaligned_b/leXX() for this?
Nice, didn't know about them, thank you. Will amend the patch. -- \ Jens Thoms Toerring ________ j...@toerring.de \_______________________________ http://toerring.de
