linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng

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Date:	Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:38:52 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@...Ilmenau.DE>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@...tech.com>,
	Michal Ludvig <michal@...ix.cz>
Subject: Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register()

On 01/04/2011 06:19 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> PTR_ALIGN (and ALIGN) rounds up, not down.

I see where I got lost in the macro expansions.

I'm still trying to understand the need for the __attribute__ on the definition
for buf.

Larry
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