Merge branch 'master' into fixes

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
index 6c58da2b882c..88cc5db9affd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
@@ -37,22 +37,36 @@
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
 /**
- * mdiobus_alloc - allocate a mii_bus structure
+ * mdiobus_alloc_size - allocate a mii_bus structure
  *
  * Description: called by a bus driver to allocate an mii_bus
  * structure to fill in.
+ *
+ * 'size' is an an extra amount of memory to allocate for private storage.
+ * If non-zero, then bus->priv is points to that memory.
  */
-struct mii_bus *mdiobus_alloc(void)
+struct mii_bus *mdiobus_alloc_size(size_t size)
 {
 	struct mii_bus *bus;
+	size_t aligned_size = ALIGN(sizeof(*bus), NETDEV_ALIGN);
+	size_t alloc_size;
+
+	/* If we alloc extra space, it should be aligned */
+	if (size)
+		alloc_size = aligned_size + size;
+	else
+		alloc_size = sizeof(*bus);
 
-	bus = kzalloc(sizeof(*bus), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (bus != NULL)
+	bus = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (bus) {
 		bus->state = MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED;
+		if (size)
+			bus->priv = (void *)bus + aligned_size;
+	}
 
 	return bus;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(mdiobus_alloc);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mdiobus_alloc_size);
 
 /**
  * mdiobus_release - mii_bus device release callback