[U-Boot] [PATCH] bootm: fix size arg of flush_cache() in bootm_load_os().

Purna Chandra Mandal purna.mandal at microchip.com
Wed Jan 20 09:37:39 CET 2016


Variable _load_end_ points to end address of uncompressed buffer
(*not* uncomress_buffer_end / sizeof(ulong)), so multipling uncompressed
size with sizeof(ulong) is grossly incorrect in flush_cache().
It might lead to access of address beyond valid memory range and hang the CPU.

Tested on MIPS architecture by using compressed(gzip, lzma)
and uncompressed uImage.

Signed-off-by: Purna Chandra Mandal <purna.mandal at microchip.com>
---

 common/bootm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/bootm.c b/common/bootm.c
index 58936ca..99d574d 100644
--- a/common/bootm.c
+++ b/common/bootm.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static int bootm_load_os(bootm_headers_t *images, unsigned long *load_end,
 		bootstage_error(BOOTSTAGE_ID_DECOMP_IMAGE);
 		return err;
 	}
-	flush_cache(load, (*load_end - load) * sizeof(ulong));
+	flush_cache(load, *load_end - load);
 
 	debug("   kernel loaded at 0x%08lx, end = 0x%08lx\n", load, *load_end);
 	bootstage_mark(BOOTSTAGE_ID_KERNEL_LOADED);
-- 
1.8.3.1



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