This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: qca_spi: Fix alignment issues in rx path 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: net-qca_spi-fix-alignment-issues-in-rx-path.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 foo@baz Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018 From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 15:40:38 +0200 Subject: net: qca_spi: Fix alignment issues in rx path From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8d66c30b12ed3cb533696dea8b9a9eadd5da426a ] The qca_spi driver causes alignment issues on ARM devices. So fix this by using netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(). Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> Fixes: 291ab06ecf67 ("net: qualcomm: new Ethernet over SPI driver for QCA7000") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c @@ -296,8 +296,9 @@ qcaspi_receive(struct qcaspi *qca) /* Allocate rx SKB if we don't have one available. */ if (!qca->rx_skb) { - qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb(net_dev, - net_dev->mtu + VLAN_ETH_HLEN); + qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(net_dev, + net_dev->mtu + + VLAN_ETH_HLEN); if (!qca->rx_skb) { netdev_dbg(net_dev, "out of RX resources\n"); qca->stats.out_of_mem++; @@ -377,7 +378,7 @@ qcaspi_receive(struct qcaspi *qca) qca->rx_skb, qca->rx_skb->dev); qca->rx_skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY; netif_rx_ni(qca->rx_skb); - qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb(net_dev, + qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(net_dev, net_dev->mtu + VLAN_ETH_HLEN); if (!qca->rx_skb) { netdev_dbg(net_dev, "out of RX resources\n"); @@ -759,7 +760,8 @@ qcaspi_netdev_init(struct net_device *de if (!qca->rx_buffer) return -ENOBUFS; - qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, qca->net_dev->mtu + VLAN_ETH_HLEN); + qca->rx_skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(dev, qca->net_dev->mtu + + VLAN_ETH_HLEN); if (!qca->rx_skb) { kfree(qca->rx_buffer); netdev_info(qca->net_dev, "Failed to allocate RX sk_buff.\n"); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/net-qca_spi-fix-alignment-issues-in-rx-path.patch