[PATCH master] imx-usb-loader: Don't try to verify more data than contained in the image

Roland Hieber r.hieber at pengutronix.de
Tue May 23 06:56:41 PDT 2023


On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 09:55:24AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> hello,
> 
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 09:16:21AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> > On platforms that don't have a 2nd stage (in my case i.MX6 without
> > imx6_barebox_start_usb), it usually happens that the transfer limit for
> > the first (and only) upload is bigger than the actual file length.
> > Then the right thing to do is processing the complete image (minus its
> > header), but not more. This was broken by recent refactoring and fixed
> > for the transfer case with commit 3cf4bcd86419 ("imx-usb-loader: Don't
> > try to transfer more data than contained in the image").
> > 
> > The same bug persisted in the verification code though, breaking
> > imx-usb-loader -c:
> > 
> > 	verifying file...
> > 	mismatch at offset 0x000999c0. expected:
> > 	[ hexdump of last bytes of barebox binary ]
> > 
> > A jump to the binary will then be skipped and subsequent imx-usb-loader
> > invocations will have their DCD writes unanswered leading to the
> > dreaded:
> > 
> > 	main dcd length 328
> > 	DCD write: sub dcd length: 0x0324, flags: 0x04w3 in err=-7, last_trans=0  00 00 00 00
> > 	addr=0x021b001c, val=0x04088032               w4 in err=-7, last_trans=0  00 00 00 00
> > 	!!perform_dcd returned -7
> > 	4 in err=-7, last_trans=0  00 00 00 00
> > 
> > Applying the same fix as in 3cf4bcd86419 fixes this issue as well.
> > 
> > Fixes: 3367ebc55ebe ("scripts: imx-usb-loader: simplify code flow for file size calculations")
> > Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> > Reported-by: Roland Hieber <r.hieber at pengutronix.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  scripts/imx/imx-usb-loader.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/imx/imx-usb-loader.c b/scripts/imx/imx-usb-loader.c
> > index 5f9c7ff3a458..676f077c2557 100644
> > --- a/scripts/imx/imx-usb-loader.c
> > +++ b/scripts/imx/imx-usb-loader.c
> > @@ -1415,7 +1415,7 @@ static int do_irom_download(struct usb_work *curr, int verify)
> >  	if (verify) {
> >  		printf("verifying file...\n");
> >  
> > -		ret = verify_memory(image, firststage_len, header_addr);
> > +		ret = verify_memory(image, min(fsize, firststage_len), header_addr);
> >  		if (ret < 0) {
> >  			printf("verifying failed\n");
> >  			goto cleanup;
> 
> Ah, I see. Looks right.
> 
> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> 
> (hmm, already too late.)

Tested-by: Roland Hieber <rhi at pengutronix.de>

(hmm, also too late. Thanks anyway!)

 - Roland

> 
> Best regards
> Uwe
> 
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