[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/5] common: introduce maximum load size

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Fri Apr 11 16:46:07 CEST 2014


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 02:18:03PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:

> From: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> 
> Various commands that load images have no checks that a loaded image
> does not exceed the available RAM space and will happily continue
> overwriting u-boot or other RAM that should not be touched. Also,
> some commands such as USB DFU or fastboot need to know the maximum
> buffer size, but there is no common way to define this.
> 
> Introduce a global load_size and environment variable loadsize to
> specify the size. The default is ~0UL which is effectively unlimited.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>

-- 
Tom
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