Kernel v5.14 has various changes to optimize unaligned memory accesses,
e.g. commit 0652035a5794 ("asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers").
Those changes triggered an unalignment-exception and thus crashed the
bootloader on parisc because the unaligned "output_len" variable now suddenly
was read word-wise while it was read byte-wise in the past.
Fix this issue by declaring the external output_len variable as char which then
forces the compiler to generate byte-accesses.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx>
Bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102162
Fixes: 8c031ba63f8f ("parisc: Unbreak bootloader due to gcc-7 optimizations")
Fixes: 0652035a5794 ("asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.14+
---
arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c
index 2d395998f524..7ee49f5881d1 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
extern char input_data[];
extern int input_len;
/* output_len is inserted by the linker possibly at an unaligned address */
-extern __le32 output_len __aligned(1);
+extern char output_len;
extern char _text, _end;
extern char _bss, _ebss;
extern char _startcode_end;
--
2.31.1
