linux-kernel - [PATCH] init/main: read bootconfig header with get_unaligned

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Message-ID: <20260113101532.1630770-1-sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:15:32 +0800
From: Sun Jian <sun.jian.kdev@...il.com>
To: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...nel.org,
	mingo@...nel.org,
	rppt@...nel.org,
	Sun Jian <sun.jian.kdev@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] init/main: read bootconfig header with get_unaligned_le32()

get_boot_config_from_initrd() scans up to 3 bytes before initrd_end to
handle GRUB 4-byte alignment. As a result, the bootconfig header
immediately preceding the magic may be unaligned.

Read the size and checksum fields with get_unaligned_le32() instead of
casting to u32 * and using le32_to_cpu(), avoiding potential unaligned
access and silencing sparse "cast to restricted __le32" warnings.

Sparse warnings (gcc + C=1):
  init/main.c:292:16: warning: cast to restricted __le32
  init/main.c:293:16: warning: cast to restricted __le32

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sun Jian <sun.jian.kdev@...il.com>
---
 init/main.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index b84818ad9685..8774ad5ab8c5 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
 #include <linux/pidfs.h>
 #include <linux/ptdump.h>
 #include <linux/time_namespace.h>
+#include <linux/unaligned.h>
 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
 
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -269,7 +270,7 @@ static void * __init get_boot_config_from_initrd(size_t *_size)
 {
 	u32 size, csum;
 	char *data;
-	u32 *hdr;
+	u8 *hdr;
 	int i;
 
 	if (!initrd_end)
@@ -288,9 +289,9 @@ static void * __init get_boot_config_from_initrd(size_t *_size)
 	return NULL;
 
 found:
-	hdr = (u32 *)(data - 8);
-	size = le32_to_cpu(hdr[0]);
-	csum = le32_to_cpu(hdr[1]);
+	hdr = (u8 *)(data - 8);
+	size = get_unaligned_le32(hdr);
+	csum = get_unaligned_le32(hdr + 4);
 
 	data = ((void *)hdr) - size;
 	if ((unsigned long)data < initrd_start) {
-- 
2.43.0