[PATCH 01/19] elf: Use memcmp to make suitable for PBL

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Mon Jan 5 03:46:18 PST 2026


On 1/5/26 12:26 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> In preparation of adding ELF support to the PBL use memcmp rather than
> strncmp for checking against the ELF magic. The other possibility would
> be to add strncmp to the PBL, but for the sake of binary size use a
> function that is already there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>

I am still not sure if we want to reuse the ELF code in PBL instead of
duplicating it, but I will read along.

Cheers,
Ahmad

> ---
>  common/elf.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/elf.c b/common/elf.c
> index c68ea0be3fa668d988b27530644bbb77eb62ff48..692323c6beab2dd8aae9a9e874fb4980152a74e0 100644
> --- a/common/elf.c
> +++ b/common/elf.c
> @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static int load_elf_image_segments(struct elf_image *elf)
>  
>  static int elf_check_image(struct elf_image *elf, void *buf)
>  {
> -	if (strncmp(buf, ELFMAG, SELFMAG)) {
> +	if (memcmp(buf, ELFMAG, SELFMAG)) {
>  		pr_err("ELF magic not found.\n");
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
> 

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