misaligned memory access in cmdlinepart.c

[Jörn Engel]

On Tue, 7 June 2005 12:30:13 +0400, Timofei V. Bondarenko wrote:
> 
> Ok, sorry for noise.
> Is it good enough?

Still broken.  You have some whitespace noise in it.

I could easily fix it up, but I feel like a bastard and prefer to
share the pain.  If your mail reader is screwing it up, you can send
the patch as an attachment.  Inline would be preferred, though.

> diff -u -p -r1.17 cmdlinepart.c
> --- mtd/drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c	26 Nov 2004 11:18:47 -0000	1.17
> +++ mtd/drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c	7 Jun 2005 08:02:00 -0000
> @@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ static int mtdpart_setup_real(char *s)
>  				&num_parts,	/* out: number of parts */
>  				0,		/* first partition */
>  				(unsigned char**)&this_mtd, /* out: extra 
>  				mem */
> -				mtd_id_len + 1 + sizeof(*this_mtd));
> +				mtd_id_len + 1 + sizeof(*this_mtd) +
> +                                sizeof(void*)-1 /*alignment*/);
>  		if(!parts)
>  		{
>  			/*
> @@ -252,7 +253,10 @@ static int mtdpart_setup_real(char *s)
>  			 return 0;
>  		 }
> 
> -		/* enter results */	
> +		/* align this_mtd */
> +                this_mtd = (struct cmdline_mtd_partition *)
> +                    ALIGN((unsigned long)this_mtd, sizeof(void*));
> +		/* enter results */
>  		this_mtd->parts = parts;
>  		this_mtd->num_parts = num_parts;
>  		this_mtd->mtd_id = (char*)(this_mtd + 1);
> 
> 

Jörn

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