diff --git a/src/commonlib/lz4_wrapper.c b/src/commonlib/lz4_wrapper.c
index 93fa7e8e1d..0342868d74 100644
--- a/src/commonlib/lz4_wrapper.c
+++ b/src/commonlib/lz4_wrapper.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2015 Google Inc.
+ * Copyright 2015-2016 Google Inc.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
@@ -54,14 +54,18 @@ static void LZ4_copy8(void *dst, const void *src)
 			((uint8_t *)dst)[i] = ((uint8_t *)src)[i];
 	#else
 		uint32_t x0, x1;
-		__asm__ volatile (
-			"ldr %[x0], [%[src]]\n\t"
-			"ldr %[x1], [%[src], #4]\n\t"
-			"str %[x0], [%[dst]]\n\t"
-			"str %[x1], [%[dst], #4]\n\t"
-			: [x0]"=r"(x0), [x1]"=r"(x1)
-			: [src]"r"(src), [dst]"r"(dst)
-			: "memory" );
+		__asm__ ("ldr %[x0], [%[src]]"
+			: [x0]"=r"(x0)
+			: [src]"r"(src), "m"(*(const uint32_t *)src));
+		__asm__ ("ldr %[x1], [%[src], #4]"
+			: [x1]"=r"(x1)
+			: [src]"r"(src), "m"(*(const uint32_t *)(src + 4)));
+		__asm__ ("str %[x0], [%[dst]]"
+			: "=m"(*(uint32_t *)dst)
+			: [x0]"r"(x0), [dst]"r"(dst));
+		__asm__ ("str %[x1], [%[dst], #4]"
+			: "=m"(*(uint32_t *)(dst + 4))
+			: [x1]"r"(x1), [dst]"r"(dst));
 	#endif
 #elif defined(__riscv__)
 	/* RISC-V implementations may trap on any unaligned access. */
diff --git a/util/lint/checkpatch.pl b/util/lint/checkpatch.pl
index 3a4b8be455..45445043e7 100755
--- a/util/lint/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/util/lint/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # (c) 2005, Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> (the ugly bit)
 # (c) 2007,2008, Andy Whitcroft <apw@uk.ibm.com> (new conditions, test suite)
 # (c) 2008-2010 Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
+# (c) 2016 Google Inc.
 # Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2
 
 use strict;
@@ -3377,11 +3378,12 @@ sub process {
 #  1. with a type on the left -- int [] a;
 #  2. at the beginning of a line for slice initialisers -- [0...10] = 5,
 #  3. inside a curly brace -- = { [0...10] = 5 }
+#  4. in an extended asm instruction -- : [r0]"r"(r0)
 		while ($line =~ /(.*?\s)\[/g) {
 			my ($where, $prefix) = ($-[1], $1);
 			if ($prefix !~ /$Type\s+$/ &&
 			    ($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/) &&
-			    $prefix !~ /[{,]\s+$/) {
+			    $prefix !~ /[{,:]\s+$/) {
 				if (ERROR("BRACKET_SPACE",
 					  "space prohibited before open square bracket '['\n" . $herecurr) &&
 				    $fix) {