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

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Thu Sep 10 20:21:09 CEST 2015


Hi,

On 03-09-15 01:36, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> 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>

Thanks, I've queued this one up for the next pull-req.

Regards,

Hans

> ---
>   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);
>


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