[U-Boot] [PATCH] Prevent a U-Boot crash on Wandboard

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Steven,

On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 21:21:32 -0400, Steven Falco
<stevenfalco at gmail.com> wrote:

> Prevent a crash when PXE boot calls do_bootm with a vmlinuz formatted image.
> In this case, there will be a null cmdtp pointer, and we must not dereference
> it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven A. Falco <stevenfalco at gmail.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> In file cmd_pxe.c around line 687 is a call:
> 
> do_bootm(NULL, 0, bootm_argc, bootm_argv);
> 
> Notice that the first argument is NULL.  Therefore, the cmdtp
> pointer will always be NULL when using the pxe boot mechanism.
> 
> do_bootm() eventually calls boot_get_kernel(), still with cmdtp == NULL.
> In the Wandboard case, the vmlinuz binary is not "legacy format", nor is
> it "fit format", so U-Boot attempts to print:
> 
> printf("Wrong Image Format for %s command\n", cmdtp->name);
> 
> That is doomed to fail, because cmdtp is NULL.  The following patch corrects
> the problem; the command name will be printed only if the pointer is valid.

Then shouldn't the patch subject/summary be "print command name only
if cmdtp is not NULL" rather than the quite uninformative "prevent a
crash"?

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.