Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:50:12 -0800
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,tglx@kernel.org,mingo@kernel.org,sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [merged mm-nonmm-stable] init-main-read-bootconfig-header-with-get_unaligned_le32.patch removed from -mm tree
Message-Id: <20260121035013.2A00FC116D0@smtp.kernel.org>
Precedence: bulk


The quilt patch titled
     Subject: init/main: read bootconfig header with get_unaligned_le32()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     init-main-read-bootconfig-header-with-get_unaligned_le32.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Sun Jian <sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com>
Subject: init/main: read bootconfig header with get_unaligned_le32()
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:15:32 +0800

get_boot_config_from_initrd() scans up to 3 bytes before initrd_end to
handle GRUB 4-byte alignment.  As a result, the bootconfig header
immediately preceding the magic may be unaligned.

Read the size and checksum fields with get_unaligned_le32() instead of
casting to u32 * and using le32_to_cpu(), avoiding potential unaligned
access and silencing sparse "cast to restricted __le32" warnings.

Sparse warnings (gcc + C=1):
  init/main.c:292:16: warning: cast to restricted __le32
  init/main.c:293:16: warning: cast to restricted __le32

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260113101532.1630770-1-sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sun Jian <sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 init/main.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/init/main.c~init-main-read-bootconfig-header-with-get_unaligned_le32
+++ a/init/main.c
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
 #include <linux/pidfs.h>
 #include <linux/ptdump.h>
 #include <linux/time_namespace.h>
+#include <linux/unaligned.h>
 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
 
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -270,7 +271,7 @@ static void * __init get_boot_config_fro
 {
 	u32 size, csum;
 	char *data;
-	u32 *hdr;
+	u8 *hdr;
 	int i;
 
 	if (!initrd_end)
@@ -289,9 +290,9 @@ static void * __init get_boot_config_fro
 	return NULL;
 
 found:
-	hdr = (u32 *)(data - 8);
-	size = le32_to_cpu(hdr[0]);
-	csum = le32_to_cpu(hdr[1]);
+	hdr = (u8 *)(data - 8);
+	size = get_unaligned_le32(hdr);
+	csum = get_unaligned_le32(hdr + 4);
 
 	data = ((void *)hdr) - size;
 	if ((unsigned long)data < initrd_start) {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com are