[U-Boot] (patch) segfault when calling fit_check_format() on corrupt FIT images

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Jon Nalley,

In message <d83696341003081006v1b6c1714ubec35ea8ff718acb at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> My goal is to be able to determine (while in Linux) if one of the two
> firmware images in flash is corrupt or not.  Although our platform
> supports a hardware watchdog, I am unclear how it could solve this
> particular problem?  Granted, this is a fairly obscure case and it is
> not likely that users will be powering off hardware during firmware
> upgrades, but I wanted to at least describe the scenario to see what
> others might think.  I would appreciate any suggestions for other
> methods of determining if a FIT image in flash is valid or not.

Corruption should be detected by the checksum tests we're doing.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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