This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rtlwifi-fix-alignment-issues.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 40b368af4b750863b2cb66a3a9513241db2f0793 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:40:04 -0600 Subject: rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues From: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 40b368af4b750863b2cb66a3a9513241db2f0793 upstream. The addresses of Wlan NIC registers are natural alignment, but some drivers have bugs. These are evident on platforms that need natural alignment to access registers. This change contains the following: 1. Function _rtl8821ae_dbi_read() is used to read one byte from DBI, thus it should use rtl_read_byte(). 2. Register 0x4C7 of 8192ee is single byte. Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/hw.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/hw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/hw.c @@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@ static void _rtl92ee_hw_configure(struct rtl_write_word(rtlpriv, REG_SIFS_TRX, 0x100a); /* Note Data sheet don't define */ - rtl_write_word(rtlpriv, 0x4C7, 0x80); + rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, 0x4C7, 0x80); rtl_write_byte(rtlpriv, REG_RX_PKT_LIMIT, 0x20); --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c @@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ static u8 _rtl8821ae_dbi_read(struct rtl } if (0 == tmp) { read_addr = REG_DBI_RDATA + addr % 4; - ret = rtl_read_word(rtlpriv, read_addr); + ret = rtl_read_byte(rtlpriv, read_addr); } return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/rtlwifi-fix-alignment-issues.patch