[PATCH for next] 'bootz' command fails to load the zImage's header

Juergen Beisert jbe at pengutronix.de
Fri Oct 14 08:11:28 EDT 2011


Running the 'bootz' command always fails with

could not read <some file>

due to it loads only a size of a pointer, instead of the size of the expected
header structure.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert <jbe at pengutronix.de>

diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/bootz.c b/arch/arm/lib/bootz.c
index fc14487..9be615b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/bootz.c
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/bootz.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static int do_bootz(struct command *cmdtp, int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	if (!usemap) {
 		header = &__header;
-		ret = read(fd, header, sizeof(header));
+		ret = read(fd, header, sizeof(*header));
 		if (ret < sizeof(*header)) {
 			printf("could not read %s\n", argv[1]);
 			goto err_out;

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