This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: rtl8192e: fix 2 byte alignment of register BSSIDR. to the 4.4-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: staging-rtl8192e-fix-2-byte-alignment-of-register-bssidr.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 867510bde14e7b7fc6dd0f50b48f6753cfbd227a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 18:57:44 +0100 Subject: staging: rtl8192e: fix 2 byte alignment of register BSSIDR. From: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> commit 867510bde14e7b7fc6dd0f50b48f6753cfbd227a upstream. BSSIDR has two byte alignment on PCI ioremap correct the write by swapping to 16 bits first. This fixes a problem that the device associates fail because the filter is not set correctly. Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_dev.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_dev.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_dev.c @@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ void rtl92e_set_reg(struct net_device *d switch (variable) { case HW_VAR_BSSID: - rtl92e_writel(dev, BSSIDR, ((u32 *)(val))[0]); - rtl92e_writew(dev, BSSIDR+2, ((u16 *)(val+2))[0]); + /* BSSIDR 2 byte alignment */ + rtl92e_writew(dev, BSSIDR, *(u16 *)val); + rtl92e_writel(dev, BSSIDR + 2, *(u32 *)(val + 2)); break; case HW_VAR_MEDIA_STATUS: @@ -963,8 +964,8 @@ static void _rtl92e_net_update(struct ne rtl92e_config_rate(dev, &rate_config); priv->dot11CurrentPreambleMode = PREAMBLE_AUTO; priv->basic_rate = rate_config &= 0x15f; - rtl92e_writel(dev, BSSIDR, ((u32 *)net->bssid)[0]); - rtl92e_writew(dev, BSSIDR+4, ((u16 *)net->bssid)[2]); + rtl92e_writew(dev, BSSIDR, *(u16 *)net->bssid); + rtl92e_writel(dev, BSSIDR + 2, *(u32 *)(net->bssid + 2)); if (priv->rtllib->iw_mode == IW_MODE_ADHOC) { rtl92e_writew(dev, ATIMWND, 2); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/staging-rtl8192e-rtl92e_get_eeprom_size-fix-read-size-of-eprom_cmd.patch queue-4.4/staging-rtl8192e-fix-2-byte-alignment-of-register-bssidr.patch