[U-Boot] [PATCH] cmd_fdt: save fdtaddr in hex format

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Jul 4 01:06:19 CEST 2015


Hi Sudeep,

On 3 July 2015 at 11:29, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com> wrote:
> Commit 90fbee3e4051 ("cmd_fdt: Actually fix fdt command in sandbox")
> changed the format(from hex address to unsigned long) in which "fdtaddr"
> is saved . However do_fdt continues reads the "fdtaddr" assuming it to
> be in hex format. This may lead to fdt being either loaded or attempted
> to load at erroneous address generating fault if the address is out of
> memory.
>
> This patch changes back the format to hex while saving the "fdtaddr"
> as it was done before.
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Cc: Hua Yanghao <huayanghao at gmail.com>
> Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
> ---
>  common/cmd_fdt.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Hi,
>
> You will see my signoff missing and it's intentional as I officially
> can't contribute to Uboot. I found this issue and it's been there for a
> while now, so thought of atleast reporting it(with a patch). So if anyone
> can review and submit this or any appropriate fix that would be great.
> I see this issue on vexpress TC2.

We can't take this without a sign-off - what stops you from adding it exactly?

The patch looks correct to me.

Regards,
Simon

>
> Regards,
> Sudeep
>
> diff --git a/common/cmd_fdt.c b/common/cmd_fdt.c
> index 682b6553958f..4c18962d8532 100644
> --- a/common/cmd_fdt.c
> +++ b/common/cmd_fdt.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ void set_working_fdt_addr(ulong addr)
>
>         buf = map_sysmem(addr, 0);
>         working_fdt = buf;
> -       setenv_ulong("fdtaddr", addr);
> +       setenv_hex("fdtaddr", addr);
>  }
>
>  /*
> --
> 1.9.1
>


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