[u-boot, v2019.04-aspeed, v1 0/1] Common:fdt: Check for error return

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Tue Dec 8 04:11:16 CET 2020


On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 19:11, Hongwei Zhang <hongweiz at ami.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Joel,
>
> > From: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 9:17 PM
> > To:   Hongwei Zhang
> >
> > Hello Hongwei,
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 19:48, Hongwei Zhang <hongweiz at ami.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Reviewer,
> > >
> > > Check for negative return value of fdt_noffset from calling
> > > boot_get_fdt_fit(). Otherwise, when fdt subimage is corrupted, the
> > > u-boot report bad hash value but continue loading kernel image and
> > > get hanged later.
> >
> > I can see from your subject line that you intended this to go to
> > Aspeed's fork of u-boot. That's fine, but you shouldn't cc the
> > upstream maintainers as they don't care for these changes.
> >
> > If the bug exists in mainline u-boot, you should certainly send the
> > fix there and ask for it to be backported to the aspeed fork.
>
> I think this issue existing in mainline u-boot, however, I have difficulty
> to include 'master' branch of u-boot in openbmc project, to acturaly test
> it. There are compiling errors.
>
> Also, I'm not sure for mainline u-boot, which branch should I use to test
> and verification? is it 'master', or 'next' branch?

I suspect it doesn't matter much. As this is a small fix, I would
chose to send it to master. (I see that's what you did)

>
> --Hongwei
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > >
> > > Hongwei Zhang (1):
> > >   Common:fdt: Check for error return value
> > >
> > >  common/image-fdt.c | 3 +++
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.17.1
> > >


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