diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
index 88f5d637b1c4..a52e929381ea 100644
--- a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
+++ b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/libfdt.h>
 
 #include <asm/addrspace.h>
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
 /*
  * These two variables specify the free mem region
@@ -113,7 +114,7 @@ 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,