Hi Marek,

> On Thursday, December 26, 2013 at 01:01:24 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Fix unaligned access in OneNAND core. The problem is that the
> > ffchars[] array is an array of "unsigned char", but in
> > onenand_write_ops_nolock() can be passed to the memcpy_16()
> > function. The memcpy_16() function will treat the buffer as an
> > array of "unsigned short", thus triggering unaligned access if the
> > compiler decided ffchars[] to be not aligned.
> > 
> > I managed to trigger the problem with regular ELDK 5.4 GCC compiler.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de>
> > Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.b...@aribaud.net>
> > Cc: Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com>
> > Cc: Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c | 8 +++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
> > b/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c index 979e4af..e33e8d3 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
> > @@ -91,7 +91,13 @@ static struct nand_ecclayout onenand_oob_32 = {
> >     .oobfree        = { {2, 3}, {14, 2}, {18, 3}, {30, 2} }
> >  };
> > 
> > -static const unsigned char ffchars[] = {
> > +/*
> > + * Warning! This array is used with the memcpy_16() function, thus
> > + * it must be aligned to 2 bytes. GCC can make this array unaligned
> > + * as the array is made of unsigned char, which memcpy16() doesn't
> > + * like and will cause unaligned access.
> > + */
> > +static const unsigned char __aligned(2) ffchars[] = {
> >     0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
> >     0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, /*
> > 16 */ 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
> 
> Lukasz, can you please review this one?

No problem, I will review the patch when I come back to the office
(and be able to test it on the proper HW).

> 
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut

Best regards,
Lukasz

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