[U-Boot] [PATCH] malloc: Use malloc simple before malloc is fully initialized in memalign()

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Fri May 18 08:21:40 UTC 2018


On 05/18/2018 12:03 PM, Ley Foon Tan wrote:
> Follow implementation in mALLOc(). Check GD_FLG_FULL_MALLOC_INIT flag and use
> malloc_simple if GD_FLG_FULL_MALLOC_INIT is unset. Adjust the malloc bytes
> to align with the requested alignment.
> 
> The original memalign() function will access mchunkptr struct to adjust the
> alignment if there is misalignment happen, but mchunkptr struct is not being
> initialized before full malloc is initialized. This cause the system crash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan at intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com>

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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