Re: [PATCH] MIPS: boot/compressed: Copy DTB to aligned address

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Mar 03 2021 - 19:07:10 EST


On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 1:33 PM Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Since 5.12-rc1, the Device Tree blob must now be properly aligned.

I had checked the other built-in cases as microblaze broke too, but
missed some of the many ways MIPS can have a dtb. Appended and
built-in DTBs were supposed to be temporary. :(

> Therefore, the decompress routine must be careful to copy the blob at
> the next aligned address after the kernel image.
>
> This commit fixes the kernel sometimes not booting with a Device Tree
> blob appended to it.
>
> Fixes: c4d5e638d6e9 ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-51-g183df9e9c2b9")
> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c | 8 ++++++++
> arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>