[PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix unaligned access and buffer size when startbyte is used

suryasaimadhu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-fbdev,dev.linux.lists.linux-staging,org.freedesktop.lists.dri-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When par->startbyte is non-zero, buf is advanced by one byte creating
an unaligned pointer for 16-bit types (u16, __be16). Dereferencing this
unaligned pointer can cause a kernel panic on strict-alignment
architectures.

Fix by using put_unaligned() instead of direct pointer dereference.

Also fix incorrect buffer size calculation in fbtft_write_buf_dc() call:
  len * (sizeof(data_type) + offset)  /* wrong: multiplies offset by len */
  len * sizeof(data_type) + offset    /* correct: one startbyte +
                                         len items */

Signed-off-by: suryasaimadhu <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c
index 2169f8d1d..cfcf4d7e7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <linux/gpio/consumer.h>
 #include <linux/spi/spi.h>
 #include "fbtft.h"
+#include <linux/unaligned.h>
 
 /*****************************************************************************
  *
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ void func(struct fbtft_par *par, int len, ...)                                \
 		offset = 1;                                                   \
 	}                                                                     \
 									      \
-	*buf = modifier((data_type)va_arg(args, unsigned int));               \
+	put_unaligned(modifier((data_type)va_arg(args, unsigned int)), buf);  \
 	ret = fbtft_write_buf_dc(par, par->buf, sizeof(data_type) + offset,   \
 				 0);                                          \
 	if (ret < 0)							      \
@@ -52,11 +53,13 @@ void func(struct fbtft_par *par, int len, ...)                                \
 									      \
 	if (len) {                                                            \
 		i = len;                                                      \
-		while (i--)						      \
-			*buf++ = modifier((data_type)va_arg(args,             \
-							    unsigned int));   \
+		while (i--) {                                                 \
+			put_unaligned(modifier((data_type)va_arg(args,        \
+					       unsigned int)), buf);          \
+			buf++;                                                \
+		}                                                             \
 		fbtft_write_buf_dc(par, par->buf,			      \
-				   len * (sizeof(data_type) + offset), 1);    \
+				   len * sizeof(data_type) + offset, 1);      \
 	}                                                                     \
 out:									      \
 	va_end(args);                                                         \
-- 
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