[PATCH] image: android: fix ramdisk default address

Eddie Kovsky ekovsky at redhat.com
Wed May 21 23:26:59 CEST 2025


Commit 21e7fa0e3ac5 ("image: android: handle ramdisk default address")
changed the default behavior for header versions less than or equal to 2.

The ramdisk address (img_data.ramdisk_ptr) is only assigned to *rd_data
if the physical load address (img_data.ramdisk_addr) is equal to 0 or
the Android default ramdisk address.

    /* Ramdisk can be used in-place, use current ptr */
    if (img_data.ramdisk_addr == 0 ||
            img_data.ramdisk_addr == ANDROID_IMAGE_DEFAULT_RAMDISK_ADDR) {
        *rd_data = img_data.ramdisk_ptr;
    } else {
        ramdisk_ptr = img_data.ramdisk_addr;
        *rd_data = ramdisk_ptr;
        memcpy((void *)(ramdisk_ptr), (void *)img_data.ramdisk_ptr,
                img_data.ramdisk_size);
    }

When the img_data.ramdisk_addr and the img_data.kernel_addr are the same
*rd_data needs to be assigned to the ramdisk address (ramdisk_ptr), not
the physical address (ramdisk_addr).

As a result of the current behavior, we can no longer boot a kernel on
the Renesas R-Car S4 board.

Add an additional check to the if clause so that the ramdisk address is
assigned when the kernel address and the ramdisk address are the same,
restoring the previous default behavior.

Fixes: 21e7fa0e3ac5 ("image: android: handle ramdisk default address")
Signed-off-by: Eddie Kovsky <ekovsky at redhat.com>
---

 boot/image-android.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/boot/image-android.c b/boot/image-android.c
index 1746b0189008..459cdb8456c4 100644
--- a/boot/image-android.c
+++ b/boot/image-android.c
@@ -488,7 +488,8 @@ 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 ||
+		    img_data.ramdisk_addr == img_data.kernel_addr) {
 			*rd_data = img_data.ramdisk_ptr;
 		} else {
 			ramdisk_ptr = img_data.ramdisk_addr;
-- 
2.49.0



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