linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: boot: Fix unaligned access with CONFIG_MIPS_RAW_APPENDED

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Date:   Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:14:04 +0100
From:   Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@...at.org>
To:     Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
Cc:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, od@...c.me,
        "open list:BROADCOM NVRAM DRIVER" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: boot: Fix unaligned access with CONFIG_MIPS_RAW_APPENDED_DTB

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:41 AM Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net> wrote:
>
> The compressed payload is not necesarily 4-byte aligned, at least when
> compiling with Clang. In that case, the 4-byte value appended to the
> compressed payload that corresponds to the uncompressed kernel image
> size must be read using get_unaligned_le().
>
> This fixes Clang-built kernels not booting on MIPS (tested on a Ingenic
> JZ4770 board).
>
> Fixes: b8f54f2cde78 ("MIPS: ZBOOT: copy appended dtb to the end of the kernel")
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v4.7
> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
> ---
>  arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@...at.org>