[FS#544] kmodloader segfault on ixp4xx (armeb)

[LEDE Bugs]

A new Flyspray task has been opened.  Details are below. 

User who did this - Ted Hess (thess) 

Attached to Project - LEDE Project
Summary - kmodloader segfault on ixp4xx (armeb)
Task Type - Bug Report
Category - Toolchain
Status - New
Assigned To - 
Operating System - All
Severity - Critical
Priority - High
Reported Version - All
Due in Version - Undecided
Due Date - Undecided
Details - I believe this issue to be a really obscure endian problem which may be more toolchain related than a raw software bug in the source code. I've tried to work-around this issue with code changes, but the problem persists. I give up...

Inside the routine 'alloc_module' the following code produces the wrong result -- specifically byte-swapped pointers in the '_aliases' array.

   char **_aliases;
   ...
   char *ptr = (char *)_aliases + naliases * sizeof(_aliases[0]);
   int len;
   
   i = 0;
   do {
      len = strlen(aliases[i]) + 1;
      memcpy(ptr, aliases[i], len);
      _aliases[i] = ptr;