[U-Boot] [PATCH V3] bugfix: image header pointer change.

[Baidu Boy]

Hi, maintainers:

2010/11/28 Baidu Boy <liucai.lfn at gmail.com>:
> This patch is to avoid potential issue when we still use the pointer
> images->legacy_hdr_os after the kernel un-compressed.
>
> in function boot_get_kernel():
> we should let the images->legacy_hdr_os point to the new copied image header,
> not the original image header in uImage which may be over-written in
> the kernel un-compressed process.  This is a potential problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baidu Boy <liucai.lfn at gmail.com>
> ---
> changes for V2:
>  - Avoid unrelated syntax changes
> changes for V3:
>  - Add some description for this patch.
>
>  common/cmd_bootm.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/cmd_bootm.c b/common/cmd_bootm.c
> index 1a024f1..8f9e5f1 100644
> --- a/common/cmd_bootm.c
> +++ b/common/cmd_bootm.c
> @@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ static void *boot_get_kernel (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp,
> int flag, int argc, char * const
>                memmove (&images->legacy_hdr_os_copy, hdr, sizeof(image_header_t));
>
>                /* save pointer to image header */
> -               images->legacy_hdr_os = hdr;
> +               images->legacy_hdr_os = &images->legacy_hdr_os_copy;
>
>                images->legacy_hdr_valid = 1;
>                show_boot_progress (6);
> --
> 1.7.3.1.msysgit.0
>

This patch is still in new state. Please help to check.
I think it is really an potential issue without this patch.

Thanks so much!