diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
index 81df9047e1109af762a03dc65c80278f67dceef8..40218be0b7ce8f751e7c431763512be41938ede8 100644
--- a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
+++ b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/libfdt.h>
 
 #include <asm/addrspace.h>
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
 /*
  * These two variables specify the free mem region
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ void decompress_kernel(unsigned long boot_heap_start)
 		dtb_size = fdt_totalsize((void *)&__appended_dtb);
 
 		/* last four bytes is always image size in little endian */
-		image_size = le32_to_cpup((void *)&__image_end - 4);
+		image_size = get_unaligned_le32((void *)&__image_end - 4);
 
 		/* copy dtb to where the booted kernel will expect it */
 		memcpy((void *)VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS_ULL + image_size,