1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
index 0f828da0339d..cb4ea4158457 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
@@ -750,7 +750,14 @@ static void sbdma_initctx(sbmacdma_t *d,
         d->sbdma_maxdescr = maxdescr;
         
         d->sbdma_dscrtable = (sbdmadscr_t *) 
-                kmalloc(d->sbdma_maxdescr*sizeof(sbdmadscr_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+                kmalloc((d->sbdma_maxdescr+1)*sizeof(sbdmadscr_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+
+        /*
+         * The descriptor table must be aligned to at least 16 bytes or the
+         * MAC will corrupt it.
+         */
+        d->sbdma_dscrtable = (sbdmadscr_t *)
+                ALIGN((unsigned long)d->sbdma_dscrtable, sizeof(sbdmadscr_t));
         
         memset(d->sbdma_dscrtable,0,d->sbdma_maxdescr*sizeof(sbdmadscr_t));