[U-Boot] [PATCH] disk: fix unaligned access in efi partitions

Marc Dietrich marvin24 at gmx.de
Fri Mar 29 12:28:58 CET 2013


start_sect is not aligned to a 4 byte boundary thus causing exceptions
on ARM platforms. Access this field via the get_unaligned macro.

Signed-off-by: Marc Dietrich <marvin24 at gmx.de>
---
 disk/part_efi.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/disk/part_efi.c b/disk/part_efi.c
index b3fd0e9..6678a4c 100644
--- a/disk/part_efi.c
+++ b/disk/part_efi.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
  *
  * This limits the maximum size of addressable storage to < 2 Terra Bytes
  */
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>
 #include <common.h>
 #include <command.h>
 #include <ide.h>
@@ -505,7 +506,7 @@ err:
 static int pmbr_part_valid(struct partition *part)
 {
 	if (part->sys_ind == EFI_PMBR_OSTYPE_EFI_GPT &&
-		le32_to_cpu(part->start_sect) == 1UL) {
+		le32_to_cpu(get_unaligned(&part->start_sect)) == 1UL) {
 		return 1;
 	}
 
-- 
1.7.9.5



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