[RFC][PATCH] mkimage: fit: Do not tail-pad fitImage with external data

[Simon Glass]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 04:19, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>
> There is no reason to tail-pad fitImage with external data to 4-bytes,
> while fitImage without external data does not have any such padding and
> is often unaligned. DT spec also does not mandate any such padding.
>
> Moreover, the tail-pad fills the last few bytes with uninitialized data,
> which could lead to a potential information leak.
>
> Test:
> echo -n x > /tmp/data ; ./tools/mkimage -f auto -d /tmp/data /tmp/fitImage ; hexdump -vC /tmp/fitImage
> echo -n x > /tmp/data ; ./tools/mkimage -E -f auto -d /tmp/data /tmp/fitImage ; hexdump -vC /tmp/fitImage
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> ---
>  tools/fit_image.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Would be good to get this in early for testing.