[PATCH 12/15] bootm: factor out file detection into helper
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Tue Jan 27 00:39:22 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 | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/common/bootm.c b/common/bootm.c
index 7fe0afe24ce8..9e302da36ca6 100644
--- a/common/bootm.c
+++ b/common/bootm.c
@@ -543,6 +543,25 @@ static int bootm_image_name_and_part(const char *name, char **filename, char **p
return 0;
}
+static 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
*/
@@ -552,7 +571,6 @@ 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) {
@@ -577,16 +595,10 @@ int bootm_boot(struct bootm_data *bootm_data)
data->efi_boot = bootm_data->efi_boot;
os_file = xstrdup(data->os_file);
-
- ret = read_file_2(os_file, &size, &data->os_header, PAGE_SIZE);
- if (ret < 0 && ret != -EFBIG) {
- pr_err("could not open %s: %pe\n", os_file, ERR_PTR(ret));
+ ret = file_read_and_detect_boot_image_type(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");
--
2.47.3
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