The device tree must be loaded in to memory at an 8-byte aligned address. Add a check for this condition in fdt_ro_probe_() and a new error code to return if we are not. Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- libfdt/fdt.c | 4 ++++ libfdt/libfdt.h | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libfdt/fdt.c b/libfdt/fdt.c index 6cf2fa03b037..3e893073da05 100644 --- a/libfdt/fdt.c +++ b/libfdt/fdt.c @@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ int32_t fdt_ro_probe_(const void *fdt) if (can_assume(VALID_DTB)) return totalsize; + /* The device tree must be at an 8-byte aligned address */ + if ((uintptr_t)fdt & 7) + return -FDT_ERR_ALIGNMENT; + if (fdt_magic(fdt) == FDT_MAGIC) { /* Complete tree */ if (!can_assume(LATEST)) { diff --git a/libfdt/libfdt.h b/libfdt/libfdt.h index 544d3efff584..b600c8d6dd41 100644 --- a/libfdt/libfdt.h +++ b/libfdt/libfdt.h @@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ extern "C" { /* FDT_ERR_BADFLAGS: The function was passed a flags field that * contains invalid flags or an invalid combination of flags. */ -#define FDT_ERR_MAX 18 +#define FDT_ERR_ALIGNMENT 19 + /* FDT_ERR_ALIGNMENT: The device tree base address is not 8-byte + * aligned. */ + +#define FDT_ERR_MAX 19 /* constants */ #define FDT_MAX_PHANDLE 0xfffffffe -- 2.17.1