From c42813b71a06a2ff4a155aa87ac609feeab76cf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helge Deller Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 23:24:42 +0200 Subject: parisc: Fix unaligned-access crash in bootloader Kernel v5.14 has various changes to optimize unaligned memory accesses, e.g. commit 0652035a5794 ("asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers"). Those changes triggered an unalignment-exception and thus crashed the bootloader on parisc because the unaligned "output_len" variable now suddenly was read word-wise while it was read byte-wise in the past. Fix this issue by declaring the external output_len variable as char which then forces the compiler to generate byte-accesses. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: John David Anglin Bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102162 Fixes: 8c031ba63f8f ("parisc: Unbreak bootloader due to gcc-7 optimizations") Fixes: 0652035a5794 ("asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers") Cc: # v5.14+ --- arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/parisc') diff --git a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c index 2d395998f524..7ee49f5881d1 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c +++ b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ extern char input_data[]; extern int input_len; /* output_len is inserted by the linker possibly at an unaligned address */ -extern __le32 output_len __aligned(1); +extern char output_len; extern char _text, _end; extern char _bss, _ebss; extern char _startcode_end; -- cgit v1.2.3