parisc: Fix unaligned-access crash in bootloader
Kernel v5.14 has various changes to optimize unaligned memory accesses, e.g. commit 0652035a ("asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers"). Those changes triggered an unalignment-exception and thus crashed the bootloader on parisc because the unaligned "output_len" variable now suddenly was read word-wise while it was read byte-wise in the past. Fix this issue by declaring the external output_len variable as char which then forces the compiler to generate byte-accesses. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> Cc: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net> Bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102162 Fixes: 8c031ba6 ("parisc: Unbreak bootloader due to gcc-7 optimizations") Fixes: 0652035a ("asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.14+
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