[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] arm: mach-keystone: Use appended original image size in image processing

Lokesh Vutla lokeshvutla at ti.com
Tue Jul 16 13:55:15 UTC 2019



On 16/07/19 7:19 PM, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> When an image is signed/encrypted on K2 devices the image may get padded
> to meet alignment requirements for the signature/encryption type. The
> original size is appended as 4 bytes little-endian to the end of the
> final image.
> 
> Normally the trailing extra bytes are ignored and so restoring the
> exact original size is not important. In the case of initrd the
> original size is important as the kernel uses it to look for
> additional filesystem data and can do the wrong thing when the
> size is not correct.
> 
> Read off the original size and report it back from the image post
> processing stage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd at ti.com>

Reviewed-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla at ti.com>

Thanks and regards,
Lokesh


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