[PATCH 06/19] bootwrapper: Preserve the pp pointer in ft_make_space() when calling ft_reorder().

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Mar 13 07:41:47 EST 2007


The ft_reorder() function may change the start of the region of interest,
so the pointer provided by the caller into that region must be fixed up
to still point to the same datum.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/boot/flatdevtree.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/flatdevtree.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/flatdevtree.c
index 6c18773..0fa4f98 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/flatdevtree.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/flatdevtree.c
@@ -261,8 +261,14 @@ static int ft_make_space(struct ft_cxt *cxt, char **pp, enum ft_rgn_id rgn,
 	char *str, *next;
 	enum ft_rgn_id r;
 
-	if (!cxt->isordered && !ft_reorder(cxt, nextra))
-		return 0;
+	if (!cxt->isordered) {
+		unsigned long rgn_off = *pp - cxt->rgn[rgn].start;
+
+		if (!ft_reorder(cxt, nextra))
+			return 0;
+
+		*pp = cxt->rgn[rgn].start + rgn_off;
+	}
 	if (ft_shuffle(cxt, pp, rgn, nextra))
 		return 1;
 
-- 
1.5.0.3




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