Em Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:34:10 +0100 Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 10:29 -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Em Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:59:42 +0200 > > Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> escreveu: > > > > > If you try to store u64 in a kfifo (or a struct with u64 members), > > > then the buf member of __STRUCT_KFIFO_PTR will cause 4 bytes > > > padding due to alignment (note that struct __kfifo is 20 bytes > > > on 32 bit). > > > > > > That in turn causes the __is_kfifo_ptr() to fail, which is caught > > > by kfifo_alloc(), which now returns EINVAL. > > > > > > So, ensure that __is_kfifo_ptr() compares to the right structure. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> > > > Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Hi Stefani/Andrew, > > > > As this patch is required for the LIRC rework, would be ok if I would > > merge it via the media tree? > > > > It is okay by me. But the question remains why this patch wasn't > already merged? > > Andrew: Any objections against this patch? I'm assuming that merging via media tree is ok for Andrew. So, I guess I'll just go ahead and merge it via my tree. Thanks, Mauro
