diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
index e3946b06e840..3d70d15ada28 100644
--- a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
+++ b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/addrspace.h>
 #include <asm/unaligned.h>
+#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
 
 /*
  * These two variables specify the free mem region
@@ -120,6 +121,13 @@ void decompress_kernel(unsigned long boot_heap_start)
 		/* last four bytes is always image size in little endian */
 		image_size = get_unaligned_le32((void *)&__image_end - 4);
 
+		/* The device tree's address must be properly aligned  */
+		image_size = ALIGN(image_size, STRUCT_ALIGNMENT);
+
+		puts("Copy device tree to address  ");
+		puthex(VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS_ULL + image_size);
+		puts("\n");
+
 		/* copy dtb to where the booted kernel will expect it */
 		memcpy((void *)VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS_ULL + image_size,
 		       __appended_dtb, dtb_size);
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index c1c345be04ff..4b4e39b7c79b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_ELF_APPENDED_DTB
+	STRUCT_ALIGN();
 	.appended_dtb : AT(ADDR(.appended_dtb) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 		*(.appended_dtb)
 		KEEP(*(.appended_dtb))
@@ -172,6 +173,7 @@ SECTIONS
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_RAW_APPENDED_DTB
+	STRUCT_ALIGN();
 	__appended_dtb = .;
 	/* leave space for appended DTB */
 	. += 0x100000;