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From: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
To: <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>,
	Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] device-tree/kernel: Use memcpy in output_length()
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:46:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250722074645.19029-1-michal.orzel@amd.com> (raw)

Trying to boot a compressed kernel with UBSAN enabled, results in the
following warning:
(XEN) UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in common/device-tree/kernel.c:21:12
(XEN) load of misaligned address 00000a0040f89867 for type 'uint32_t'
(XEN) which requires 4 byte alignment
...
(XEN)    [<00000a0000529964>] kernel_decompress+0x2bc/0x5bc
(XEN)    [<00000a000052a354>] kernel_probe+0x6f0/0x734
(XEN)    [<00000a0000528714>] dom0less-build.c#construct_domU+0x188/0x9d8

If &image[image_len - 4] is not aligned to 4B boundary it causes
unaligned access which is undefined behavior on Arm. Use memcpy instead
to be safe.

Fixes: c1be0b102e0e ("xen/arm: support gzip compressed kernels")
Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
---
 xen/common/device-tree/kernel.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/device-tree/kernel.c b/xen/common/device-tree/kernel.c
index ef393182b691..28096121a52d 100644
--- a/xen/common/device-tree/kernel.c
+++ b/xen/common/device-tree/kernel.c
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@
 
 static uint32_t __init output_length(char *image, unsigned long image_len)
 {
-    return *(uint32_t *)&image[image_len - 4];
+    uint32_t val;
+
+    memcpy(&val, &image[image_len - 4], sizeof(val));
+
+    return val;
 }
 
 int __init kernel_decompress(struct boot_module *mod, uint32_t offset)
-- 
2.43.0



             reply	other threads:[~2025-07-22  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-22  7:46 Michal Orzel [this message]
2025-07-22  4:50 ` [PATCH] device-tree/kernel: Use memcpy in output_length() Jason Andryuk
2025-07-23  6:33   ` Orzel, Michal
2025-07-23  6:44     ` Bertrand Marquis

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