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

Daniel Schwierzeck daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 16:34:26 CET 2016


Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2016, 14:07 +0530 schrieb Purna Chandra Mandal:
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.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);
-- 
- Daniel



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