[PATCH v2 11/13] bootm: factor out file detection into helper
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Mon Feb 9 10:10:50 PST 2026
Having this function callable on its own will come in handy once we add
boot.image override support as that would need to recompute the file
type.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
common/bootm.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
include/bootm.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/common/bootm.c b/common/bootm.c
index 3c3523644b57..d43079bb81da 100644
--- a/common/bootm.c
+++ b/common/bootm.c
@@ -542,6 +542,33 @@ static int bootm_image_name_and_part(const char *name, char **filename, char **p
return 0;
}
+/**
+ * file_read_and_detect_boot_image_type - read file header and detect image type
+ * @os_file: path to the boot image file
+ * @os_header: returns a PAGE_SIZE buffer with the file header (caller frees)
+ *
+ * Return: detected filetype (enum filetype) on success, negative error code
+ * on failure. On error, *os_header is set to NULL.
+ */
+int file_read_and_detect_boot_image_type(const char *os_file, void **os_header)
+{
+ size_t size;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = read_file_2(os_file, &size, os_header, PAGE_SIZE);
+ if (ret < 0 && ret != -EFBIG) {
+ pr_err("could not open %s: %pe\n", os_file, ERR_PTR(ret));
+ return ret;
+ }
+ if (size < PAGE_SIZE) {
+ free(*os_header);
+ *os_header = NULL;
+ return -ENODATA;
+ }
+
+ return file_detect_boot_image_type(*os_header, PAGE_SIZE);
+}
+
/*
* bootm_boot - Boot an application image described by bootm_data
*/
@@ -550,7 +577,6 @@ int bootm_boot(struct bootm_data *bootm_data)
struct image_data *data;
struct image_handler *handler;
int ret;
- size_t size;
const char *image_type_str;
if (!bootm_data->os_file) {
@@ -574,15 +600,10 @@ int bootm_boot(struct bootm_data *bootm_data)
data->os_entry = bootm_data->os_entry;
data->efi_boot = bootm_data->efi_boot;
- ret = read_file_2(data->os_file, &size, &data->os_header, PAGE_SIZE);
- if (ret < 0 && ret != -EFBIG) {
- pr_err("could not open %s: %pe\n", data->os_file, ERR_PTR(ret));
+ ret = file_read_and_detect_boot_image_type(data->os_file, &data->os_header);
+ if (ret < 0)
goto err_out;
- }
- if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
- goto err_out;
-
- data->image_type = file_detect_boot_image_type(data->os_header, PAGE_SIZE);
+ data->image_type = ret;
if (!data->force && data->image_type == filetype_unknown) {
pr_err("Unknown OS filetype (try -f)\n");
diff --git a/include/bootm.h b/include/bootm.h
index ef979807505d..21feb1ca98ae 100644
--- a/include/bootm.h
+++ b/include/bootm.h
@@ -186,4 +186,6 @@ bool bootm_efi_check_image(struct image_handler *handler,
struct image_data *data,
enum filetype detected_filetype);
+int file_read_and_detect_boot_image_type(const char *os_file, void **os_header);
+
#endif /* __BOOTM_H */
--
2.47.3
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