[coreboot-gerrit] Patch set updated for coreboot: [UNVERIFIED] lb_new_record: Make sure that records are 8-byte aligned

[Jonathan Neuschäfer]

Jonathan Neuschäfer ([e-mail]) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at https://review.coreboot.org/14985

-gerrit

commit 1e795cad1e0e1579c60c329a58147b301f4b8819
Author: Jonathan Neuschäfer 
Date:   Fri May 27 09:05:03 2016 +0200

[UNVERIFIED] lb_new_record: Make sure that records are 8-byte aligned

Some records contain uint64_t fields that could trigger an unaligned
    memory access fault on RISC-V.

I have not yet tested whether this patch breaks any other architectures.

Change-Id: I54ff68ca00009a0977249adc839fadc4a1d6881d
    Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer 
---
 src/lib/coreboot_table.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lib/coreboot_table.c b/src/lib/coreboot_table.c
index 3af2be6..cf37776 100644
--- a/src/lib/coreboot_table.c
+++ b/src/lib/coreboot_table.c
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ struct lb_record *lb_new_record(struct lb_header *header)
    struct lb_record *rec;
    rec = lb_last_record(header);
    if (header->table_entries) {
+		/* Make sure that the next record is sufficiently aligned to
+		 * avoid an unaligned memory access. */
+		rec->size = ALIGN_UP(rec->size, sizeof(uint64_t));
+
    	header->table_bytes += rec->size;
    }
    rec = lb_last_record(header);