[U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Ensure that 'mksunxiboot' tool produces deterministic output

Siarhei Siamashka siarhei.siamashka at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 01:36:39 CEST 2015


Currently some uninitialized padding bytes are written to the output
file, as can be confirmed with valgrind:

$ valgrind tools/mksunxiboot spl/u-boot-spl.bin spl/sunxi-spl.bin

==5581== Syscall param write(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==5581==    at 0x4F0F940: __write_nocancel (in /lib64/libc-2.20.so)
==5581==    by 0x400839: main (in /tmp/u-boot/tools/mksunxiboot)
==5581==  Address 0xffeff5d3c is on thread 1's stack
==5581==  in frame #1, created by main (???)

This patch fixes the problem by clearing the whole structure instead
of just a portion of it.

Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka at gmail.com>
---
 tools/mksunxiboot.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/mksunxiboot.c b/tools/mksunxiboot.c
index 3361251..676d392 100644
--- a/tools/mksunxiboot.c
+++ b/tools/mksunxiboot.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		return EXIT_FAILURE;
 	}
 
-	memset(img.pad, 0, BLOCK_SIZE);
+	memset(&img, 0, sizeof(img));
 
 	/* get input file size */
 	file_size = lseek(fd_in, 0, SEEK_END);
-- 
2.4.6



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