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Re: [v2] rsi: remove unecessary PTR_ALIGN()s

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Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The issue here is that we allocate "data" and then set
> "data = PTR_ALIGN(data, 8);" and then we free the aligned pointer
> instead of the original pointer.
> 
> kmalloc() pointers are already ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN aligned which is 8 or
> more on everything except certain Xtensa variants.  We decided that if
> the Xtensa people ever notice a bug here then we'll tell them the bug is
> on their side.  ;)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

350fcdb83457 rsi: remove unecessary PTR_ALIGN()s

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10325781/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches




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