Re: [PATCH] tpm, tpm_crb: fix unaligned read of the command buffer address

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 08:15:23PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> The command buffer address is necessarily not naturally aligned.
> The hardware drops the entire read on some platforms and fills the
> address with 1's. This patch fixes the issue by splitting the read
> into two 32 bit reads.

Is this necessary? The packed attribution means that unaligned members
are allowed and the compiler deals with it where necessary.

Jason
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