[PATCH] kexec ppc64: fix misaligned cmdline
Michael Neuling
mikey at neuling.org
Mon Jun 4 19:56:37 EDT 2007
> > If the cmdline changes between boots, we can get misalignment of the
> > bootargs entry, which in turn corrupts our device tree blob and hence
> > kills our kexec boot.
> >
> > Specifically, if the cmdline length was >= 8 before and the new cmdline
> > length is < 8, we can get corruption.
>
> Hrm. Have you considered using dtc for this conversion, rather than
> this somewhat dubious looking fs2dt?
Numerous times.
fs2dt needs to be converted to use the device tree library, but that
will take a lot more work than a 5 minute patch.
Mikey
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