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Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:02:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:02:18 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Devansh Soni Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: rtl8723bs: use PTR_ALIGN() for rsp_buf Message-ID: References: <20260616123528.44278-1-devanshsoni874@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260616123528.44278-1-devanshsoni874@gmail.com> On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 06:05:28PM +0530, Devansh Soni wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c > index c1185c25e..38ce3156c 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_cmd.c > @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ int rtw_init_cmd_priv(struct cmd_priv *pcmdpriv) > return -ENOMEM; > } > > - pcmdpriv->rsp_buf = pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf + 4 - ((SIZE_PTR)(pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf) & 3); > + pcmdpriv->rsp_buf = PTR_ALIGN(pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf, 4); You're working against an old version of the kernel. You should be working against linux-next or devel-next. The commit message mentions 8-byte aligned memory, but the code is still doing PTR_ALIGN(). The kmalloc() alignment is determined by ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN and it's always at least 8 but it can be higher. Here the code is trying to ensure that it is 4 byte aligned, and 8 is already a multiple of 4. You could just delete the PTR_ALIGN() along with the related code. 1. It allocates 4 extra bytes. "MAX_RSPSZ + 4" bytes. It could instead just allocate MAX_RSPSZ bytes. 2. This pcmdpriv->rsp_buf = PTR_ALIGN() can be removed. 3. The pcmdpriv->rsp_allocated_buf pointer only exists to store the unaligned pointer. Just get rid of it. The early part of function which does CMDBUFF_ALIGN_SZ is more complicated because that is 512 bytes. It's trying to ensure that the pointers are aligned enough for DMA. The proper alignment in that case is probably ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN but I'm less familiar with how that works. regards, dan carpenter