[PATCH 1/1] arm: do not copy magic 4 bytes of appended DTB in zImage

Alexander Egorenkov egorenar-dev at posteo.net
Thu Apr 8 21:06:44 BST 2021


If the passed zImage happens to have a DTB appended, then the magic 4 bytes
of the DTB are copied together with the kernel image. This leads to
failed kexec boots because the decompressor finds the aforementioned
DTB magic and falsely tries to replace the DTB passed in the register r2
with the non-existent appended one.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar-dev at posteo.net>
---
 kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c b/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c
index 925a9be..8ec289d 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
 	unsigned int atag_offset = 0x1000; /* 4k offset from memory start */
 	unsigned int extra_size = 0x8000; /* TEXT_OFFSET */
 	const struct zimage_tag *tag;
+	size_t kernel_buf_size;
 	size_t kernel_mem_size;
 	const char *command_line;
 	char *modified_cmdline = NULL;
@@ -537,6 +538,8 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
 		}
 	}
 
+	kernel_buf_size = len;
+
 	/*
 	 * Always extend the zImage by four bytes to ensure that an appended
 	 * DTB image always sees an initialised value after _edata.
@@ -759,7 +762,7 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
 		add_segment(info, dtb_buf, dtb_length, dtb_offset, dtb_length);
 	}
 
-	add_segment(info, buf, len, kernel_base, kernel_mem_size);
+	add_segment(info, buf, kernel_buf_size, kernel_base, kernel_mem_size);
 
 	info->entry = (void*)kernel_base;
 
-- 
2.31.1




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