commitb8b8b16352upstream. In commit40b368af4b("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"), the read of REG_DBI_READ was changed from 16 to 8 bits. For unknown reasonsi this change results in reduced stability for the wireless connection. This regression was located using bisection. Fixes:40b368af4b("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues") Reported-and-tested-by: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>