Re: [PATCH v5 2/8] nvmem: core: Enforce stride and alignment checks for nvmem_device functions
From: Thomas Weißschuh
Date: Thu May 21 2026 - 11:25:46 EST
On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 04:27:54PM +0200, Gregor Herburger wrote:
> The stride and word_size attributes in the nvmem_config struct are
> currently only used when reading/writing through sysfs functions
> bin_attr_nvmem_read/bin_attr_nvmem_write and in the nvmem_cell api.
> Reads and writes with nvmem_device_write/nvmem_device_read still allow
> unaligned access.
>
> Add a check to these functions to enforce word_size and stride_length
> aligned reads and writes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregor Herburger <gregor.herburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/nvmem/core.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
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