linux-kernel - [016/262] USB: fix ehci alignment error

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Date:	Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:25:38 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Harro Haan <hrhaan@...il.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: [016/262] USB: fix ehci alignment error

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Harro Haan <hrhaan@...il.com>

commit 276532ba9666b36974cbe16f303fc8be99c9da17 upstream.

The Kirkwood gave an unaligned memory access error on
line 742 of drivers/usb/host/echi-hcd.c:
"ehci->last_periodic_enable = ktime_get_real();"

Signed-off-by: Harro Haan <hrhaan@...il.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 include/linux/usb/hcd.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/usb/hcd.h
+++ b/include/linux/usb/hcd.h
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ struct usb_hcd {
 	 * this structure.
 	 */
 	unsigned long hcd_priv[0]
-			__attribute__ ((aligned(sizeof(unsigned long))));
+			__attribute__ ((aligned(sizeof(s64))));
 };
 
 /* 2.4 does this a bit differently ... */


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