[PATCH v2 1/5] boot/image-android: Workaround kernel/ramdisk invalid addr

George Chan via B4 Relay devnull+gchan9527.gmail.com at kernel.org
Mon May 5 11:17:09 CEST 2025


From: George Chan <gchan9527 at gmail.com>

Some androidboot image have invalid kernel/ramdisk load addr,
force to ignore those value and use loadaddr instead.

Suggested-by: Casey Connolly <casey.connolly at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: George Chan <gchan9527 at gmail.com>
---
 boot/Kconfig         | 6 ++++++
 boot/image-android.c | 9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/boot/Kconfig b/boot/Kconfig
index fb37d912bc9..4bdac384181 100644
--- a/boot/Kconfig
+++ b/boot/Kconfig
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ config ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE
 	  This enables support for booting images which use the Android
 	  image format header.
 
+config ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE_IGNORE_BLOB_ADDR
+	bool "Android Boot Image ignore addr"
+	default n
+	help
+	  This ignore kernel/ramdisk load addr specified in androidboot header.
+
 config TIMESTAMP
 	bool "Show image date and time when displaying image information"
 	default y if CMD_DATE
diff --git a/boot/image-android.c b/boot/image-android.c
index 1746b018900..7b8eb6a4f64 100644
--- a/boot/image-android.c
+++ b/boot/image-android.c
@@ -268,7 +268,8 @@ static ulong android_image_get_kernel_addr(struct andr_image_data *img_data,
 	 *
 	 * Otherwise, we will return the actual value set by the user.
 	 */
-	if (img_data->kernel_addr  == ANDROID_IMAGE_DEFAULT_KERNEL_ADDR) {
+	if (img_data->kernel_addr  == ANDROID_IMAGE_DEFAULT_KERNEL_ADDR ||
+		IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE_IGNORE_BLOB_ADDR)) {
 		if (comp == IH_COMP_NONE)
 			return img_data->kernel_ptr;
 		return env_get_ulong("kernel_addr_r", 16, 0);
@@ -464,7 +465,8 @@ int android_image_get_ramdisk(const void *hdr, const void *vendor_boot_img,
 	 */
 	if (img_data.header_version > 2) {
 		/* Ramdisk can't be used in-place, copy it to ramdisk_addr_r */
-		if (img_data.ramdisk_addr == ANDROID_IMAGE_DEFAULT_RAMDISK_ADDR) {
+		if (img_data.ramdisk_addr == ANDROID_IMAGE_DEFAULT_RAMDISK_ADDR ||
+			(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE_IGNORE_BLOB_ADDR))) {
 			ramdisk_ptr = env_get_ulong("ramdisk_addr_r", 16, 0);
 			if (!ramdisk_ptr) {
 				printf("Invalid ramdisk_addr_r to copy ramdisk into\n");
@@ -488,7 +490,8 @@ int android_image_get_ramdisk(const void *hdr, const void *vendor_boot_img,
 	} else {
 		/* Ramdisk can be used in-place, use current ptr */
 		if (img_data.ramdisk_addr == 0 ||
-		    img_data.ramdisk_addr == ANDROID_IMAGE_DEFAULT_RAMDISK_ADDR) {
+		    img_data.ramdisk_addr == ANDROID_IMAGE_DEFAULT_RAMDISK_ADDR ||
+			(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE_IGNORE_BLOB_ADDR))) {
 			*rd_data = img_data.ramdisk_ptr;
 		} else {
 			ramdisk_ptr = img_data.ramdisk_addr;

-- 
2.43.0




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