This fixes the following ASan warning: $ mips64el-softmmu/qemu-system-mips64el -M boston -kernel vmlinux.gz.itb -nographic hw/core/loader-fit.c:108:17: runtime error: load of misaligned address 0x7f95cd7e4264 for type 'fdt64_t', which requires 8 byte alignment 0x7f95cd7e4264: note: pointer points here 00 00 00 3e ff ff ff ff 80 7d 2a c0 00 00 00 01 68 61 73 68 40 30 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 14 ^
Reported-by: AddressSanitizer Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> --- v2: do not change the 32-bit access, add comments (David Gibson) hw/core/loader-fit.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/core/loader-fit.c b/hw/core/loader-fit.c index 0c4a7207f4..c1c7c9c119 100644 --- a/hw/core/loader-fit.c +++ b/hw/core/loader-fit.c @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ static int fit_image_addr(const void *itb, int img, const char *name, { const void *prop; int len; + fdt64_t fdt64; prop = fdt_getprop(itb, img, name, &len); if (!prop) { @@ -102,10 +103,18 @@ static int fit_image_addr(const void *itb, int img, const char *name, switch (len) { case 4: + /* Assuming the base of the fdt is aligned, then fdt_getprop() + * returns 32-bit aligned properties, so this load is guaranteed + * to be 32-bit aligned. + */ *addr = fdt32_to_cpu(*(fdt32_t *)prop); return 0; case 8: - *addr = fdt64_to_cpu(*(fdt64_t *)prop); + /* Since the property is not guaranteed to be 64-bit aligned, + * use the stack to avoid an unaligned load. + */ + memcpy(&fdt64, prop, sizeof(fdt64)); + *addr = fdt64_to_cpu(fdt64); return 0; default: error_printf("invalid %s address length %d\n", name, len); -- 2.17.0