[PATCH v2] boot: android: fix booting without a ramdisk

Mattijs Korpershoek mkorpershoek at baylibre.com
Tue Jul 30 10:51:21 CEST 2024


Hi Michael,

Thank you for the patch.

On lun., juil. 29, 2024 at 23:36, Michael Walle <mwalle at kernel.org> wrote:

> android_image_get_ramdisk() will return an error if there is no ramdisk.
> Using the android image without a ramdisk worked until commit
> 1ce8e10f3b4b ("image: Fix up ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE ramdisk code") because
> the return code wasn't checked until then. Return -ENOENT in case
> there is no ramdisk and translate that into -ENOPKG in the calling
> code, which will then indicate "no ramdisk" to its caller
> (boot_get_ramdisk()).
>
> This way, we can get rid of the "*rd_data = *rd_len = 0;" in the error
> path, too.
>
> With this, I'm able to boot a linux kernel using fastboot again:
>
>   fastboot --base 0x41000000 --header-version 2 --dtb /path/to/dtb \
>   --cmdline "root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait" boot path/to/Image
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <mwalle at kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Mattijs Korpershoek <mkorpershoek at baylibre.com>

> ---
>  boot/image-android.c | 7 +++----
>  boot/image-board.c   | 4 +++-
>  include/image.h      | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/boot/image-android.c b/boot/image-android.c
> index 09c7a44e058..774565fd1fe 100644
> --- a/boot/image-android.c
> +++ b/boot/image-android.c
> @@ -393,10 +393,9 @@ int android_image_get_ramdisk(const void *hdr, const void *vendor_boot_img,
>  	if (!android_image_get_data(hdr, vendor_boot_img, &img_data))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	if (!img_data.ramdisk_size) {
> -		*rd_data = *rd_len = 0;
> -		return -1;
> -	}
> +	if (!img_data.ramdisk_size)
> +		return -ENOENT;
> +
>  	if (img_data.header_version > 2) {
>  		ramdisk_ptr = img_data.ramdisk_addr;
>  		memcpy((void *)(ramdisk_ptr), (void *)img_data.vendor_ramdisk_ptr,
> diff --git a/boot/image-board.c b/boot/image-board.c
> index f2124013046..eca1b1d2bff 100644
> --- a/boot/image-board.c
> +++ b/boot/image-board.c
> @@ -427,7 +427,9 @@ static int select_ramdisk(struct bootm_headers *images, const char *select, u8 a
>  				unmap_sysmem(ptr);
>  			}
>  
> -			if (ret)
> +			if (ret == -ENOENT)
> +				return -ENOPKG;
> +			else if (ret)
>  				return ret;
>  			done = true;
>  		}
> diff --git a/include/image.h b/include/image.h
> index dd4042d1bd9..2ab17075287 100644
> --- a/include/image.h
> +++ b/include/image.h
> @@ -1858,7 +1858,7 @@ int android_image_get_kernel(const void *hdr,
>   * @vendor_boot_img : Pointer to vendor boot image header
>   * @rd_data:	Pointer to a ulong variable, will hold ramdisk address
>   * @rd_len:	Pointer to a ulong variable, will hold ramdisk length
> - * Return: 0 if succeeded, -1 if ramdisk size is 0
> + * Return: 0 if OK, -ENOPKG if no ramdisk, -EINVAL if invalid image
>   */
>  int android_image_get_ramdisk(const void *hdr, const void *vendor_boot_img,
>  			      ulong *rd_data, ulong *rd_len);
> -- 
> 2.39.2


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