[PATCH] tools: open FIT image for reading as O_RDONLY instead of O_RDWR
Dragan Simic
dsimic at manjaro.org
Wed Mar 20 16:59:29 CET 2024
Hello Ahelenia,
Please see my comments below.
On 2024-03-20 14:08, Ahelenia Ziemiańska wrote:
> The only usage of the fd is for the single read() below;
> this prevented
> mkimage -f auto -A arm64 \
> -T kernel -C lz4 -d Image-6.6.15.lz4 \
> -b mt8173-elm-hana-6.6.15.dtb outf
> when the inputs were unwriteable.
s/unwriteable/unwritable/
Also, the patch subject could be moved to the patch description,
and the following could be used instead, as the subject:
tools: open FIT image read-only
>
> Link: https://bugs.debian.org/1063097
> Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli at nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Looking good to me. Opening the file read-only is also good
from the standpoint of using least privilege to perform the
required operation.
With the small nitpicks above,
Reviewed-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org>
> ---
> tools/fit_image.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/fit_image.c b/tools/fit_image.c
> index beef1fa8..0fccfbb4 100644
> --- a/tools/fit_image.c
> +++ b/tools/fit_image.c
> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static int fdt_property_file(struct
> image_tool_params *params,
> int ret;
> int fd;
>
> - fd = open(fname, O_RDWR | O_BINARY);
> + fd = open(fname, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);
> if (fd < 0) {
> fprintf(stderr, "%s: Can't open %s: %s\n",
> params->cmdname, fname, strerror(errno));
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