[PATCH] tpm/tpm_crb: Avoid unaligned reads in crb_recv():

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Fri Feb 1 17:49:05 UTC 2019


On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 3:33 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
<jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Thus, it makes sense to fix this also in tpm_crb, not least because
> the fix can be then backported to stable kernels and make them more robust
> when compiled in differing environments.

Ack, looks sane to me, and should help both the backport and probably
generate better code too.

In the meantime, I've committed the iomem.c change with a *long*
commit message. For all we know, there might be other cases like this
lurking somewhere else that just happened to work. Plus it's the right
thing to do anyway.

               Linus



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