[U-Boot] [PATCH] malloc_simple: fix malloc_ptr calculation

Philipp Rosenberger ilu at linutronix.de
Tue Sep 8 12:41:24 CEST 2015


The gd->malloc_ptr and the gd->malloc_limit are offsets to gd->malloc_base.
But the addr variable contains the absolute address. The new_ptr must be:
addr + bytes - gd->malloc_base.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Rosenberger <ilu at linutronix.de>
---
 common/malloc_simple.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/malloc_simple.c b/common/malloc_simple.c
index 134e059..c745863 100644
--- a/common/malloc_simple.c
+++ b/common/malloc_simple.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ void *memalign_simple(size_t align, size_t bytes)
 	void *ptr;
 
 	addr = ALIGN(gd->malloc_base + gd->malloc_ptr, align);
-	new_ptr = addr + bytes;
+	new_ptr = addr + bytes - gd->malloc_base;
 	if (new_ptr > gd->malloc_limit)
 		return NULL;
 	ptr = map_sysmem(addr, bytes);
-- 
2.1.4



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