[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/4] mkexynosspl: fix uninitialized buffer

[Minkyu Kang]

Dear Albert ARIBAUD,

On 14/12/13 19:14, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi Minkyu,
> 
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:07:57 +0900, Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang at samsung.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Albert,
>>
>> On 13/12/13 18:00, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
>>> (adding Minkyu as the Samsung custodian)
>>>
>>> On Mon,  9 Dec 2013 18:09:18 +0100, Albert ARIBAUD
>>> <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> mkexynos reads its input file which might be smaller than
>>>
>>> ( typo: s/mkexynos/mkexynosspl/ -- wil fix when applying if thee is
>>> no other change to be made )
>>>
>>>> its read buffer, but always writes the whole buffer out.
>>>> This does not affect the functionalyty of the output file,
> 
> ... and s/functionalyty/functionality/, too.
> 
>>>> but it makes its content unpredictable as the end of the
>>>> buffer is never initialized. Fix this by zeroing the buffer
>>>> before reading the input file.
>>>
>>> Minkyu: should the buffer be pre-filled with zeroes or should I use
>>> ones instead? Or maybe the output could be truncated to the size of the
>>> input?
>>
>> Basically, the output file is fixed to 14K as same as buffer size.
>> And the input file should be smaller than 14K.
>> It's the rule of exynos spl.
>> The role of mkexynosspl is just adding 4 byte checksum value to end of file.
>> If the input file is bigger than 14K, output will be truncated.
>>
>>>
>>> Amicalement,
>>> Albert.
>>>  
>>>> Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>
>>
>> btw, this change looks reasonable to me.
>>
>> Acked-by: Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang at samsung.com>
> 
> Thanks! If that's ok with you, I'll apply 1/4 to ARM, considering it a
> kind of bugfix, and remove it from V4 of the patch series if there is
> any.
> 
> Or if you prefer to apply 1/4 to u-boot-samsung, that's fine with me.

please apply this patch to u-boot-arm.

> 
>> Thanks,
>> Minkyu Kang.
> 
> Amicalement,
> 

Thanks,
Minkyu Kang.