Re: N900 v3.19-rc5 arm atags_to_fdt.c is broken

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jan 23 2015 - 18:49:08 EST


On Fri 2015-01-23 23:36:36, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Friday 23 January 2015 22:39:55 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > when I boot zImage with appended DT n900 in qemu
> > fdt_open_into() function called from file
> > arch/arm/boot/compressed/atags_to_fdt.c (in function
> > atags_to_fdt) always returns -FDT_ERR_NOSPACE.
> >
> > It means that all ATAGS (including cmdline arguments) passed
> > by bootloader are ignored.
> >
> > On real n900 device I see that booted DT version also ignore
> > cmdline arguments from bootloader. I cannot debug decompress
> > code on real device, but I think it is same problem as in
> > qemu.
>
> Looks like this quick patch is fixing above problem:

So... something overruns stack, and bigger stack fixes it...?

Pavel

> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> index 68be901..4a7d75b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ restart: adr r0, LC0
> * area. No GOT fixup has occurred yet, but none of the
> * code we're about to call uses any global variable.
> */
> - add sp, sp, #0x10000
> + add sp, sp, #0x20000
> stmfd sp!, {r0-r3, ip, lr}
> mov r0, r8
> mov r1, r6
> @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ restart: adr r0, LC0
> bleq atags_to_fdt
>
> ldmfd sp!, {r0-r3, ip, lr}
> - sub sp, sp, #0x10000
> + sub sp, sp, #0x20000
> #endif
>
> mov r8, r6 @ use the appended device tree
>
>



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