[PATCH] commands: go: start files 4 KiB aligned
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at barebox.org
Sun Nov 8 12:15:42 PST 2026
go memmaps the file and jumps to wherever its data happens to be. For a
file in ramfs, that's a malloc'ed chunk, but barebox on ARM64 addresses
its data with adrp and needs to run 4 KiB aligned.
Let's read files that can't be memmapped 4 KiB aligned into an aligned
buffer instead. This also makes go work with files that can't be
memmapped at all, like those on TFTP.
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-5.5
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>
---
commands/go.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/commands/go.c b/commands/go.c
index 2e201c6ff3d4..2b549f3d9581 100644
--- a/commands/go.c
+++ b/commands/go.c
@@ -11,13 +11,51 @@
#include <getopt.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <errno.h>
+#include <libfile.h>
+#include <malloc.h>
+#include <linux/sizes.h>
#include <security/config.h>
#define INT_ARGS_MAX 4
+/* adrp, as used by e.g. barebox on ARM64, needs 4 KiB alignment */
+#define GO_ALIGN SZ_4K
+
+static void *go_map(int fd, void **buf)
+{
+ struct stat st;
+ void *addr;
+ int ret;
+
+ addr = memmap(fd, PROT_READ);
+ if (addr != MAP_FAILED && IS_ALIGNED((ulong)addr, GO_ALIGN))
+ return addr;
+
+ ret = fstat(fd, &st);
+ if (ret)
+ return MAP_FAILED;
+
+ if (st.st_size == FILE_SIZE_STREAM || st.st_size > SIZE_MAX) {
+ errno = EFBIG;
+ return MAP_FAILED;
+ }
+
+ *buf = memalign(GO_ALIGN, st.st_size);
+ if (!*buf) {
+ errno = ENOMEM;
+ return MAP_FAILED;
+ }
+
+ ret = read_full(fd, *buf, st.st_size);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return MAP_FAILED;
+
+ return *buf;
+}
+
static int do_go(int argc, char *argv[])
{
- void *addr;
+ void *addr, *buf = NULL;
int rcode = 1;
int fd = -1;
void (*func)(ulong r0, ulong r1, ulong r2, ulong r3);
@@ -55,9 +93,9 @@ static int do_go(int argc, char *argv[])
goto out;
}
- addr = memmap(fd, PROT_READ);
+ addr = go_map(fd, &buf);
if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
- perror("memmap");
+ perror(argv[0]);
goto out;
}
} else
@@ -100,6 +138,7 @@ static int do_go(int argc, char *argv[])
while (1)
;
out:
+ free(buf);
if (fd > 0)
close(fd);
@@ -110,7 +149,8 @@ BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_START(go)
BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("Start application at ADDR passing ARG as arguments.")
BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("")
BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("If addr does not start with a digit it is interpreted as a filename")
-BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("in which case the file is memmapped and executed")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("in which case the file is memmapped and executed. Files that can't be")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("memmapped at a 4 KiB aligned address are read into memory first.")
BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("Options:")
BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT("-s", "pass all arguments as strings referenced by argc, argv arguments (default)")
BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT("-i", "pass up to four integer arguments using default calling convention")
--
2.47.3
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