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| author | Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com> | 2020-06-10 09:55:19 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-06-23 00:44:44 +0200 |
| commit | 5124b31c1e90797e26710377d04eb005759494a0 (patch) | |
| tree | 11718a328be41b541e8b3141f34e2dbd4ea3a5d0 /arch/sparc | |
| parent | sparc64: viohs: Use struct_size() helper (diff) | |
| download | linux-5124b31c1e90797e26710377d04eb005759494a0.tar.xz linux-5124b31c1e90797e26710377d04eb005759494a0.zip | |
sparc: piggyback: handle invalid image
With an old elftoaout, the generation of tftpboot.img fail with "lseek:
invalid argument".
This is due to offset being negative.
Instead of printing this error message, let's print a better one.
Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/sparc/boot/piggyback.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/boot/piggyback.c b/arch/sparc/boot/piggyback.c index a7a38fb4ece0..6d74064add0a 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/boot/piggyback.c +++ b/arch/sparc/boot/piggyback.c @@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ static off_t get_hdrs_offset(int kernelfd, const char *filename) offset -= LOOKBACK; /* skip a.out header */ offset += AOUT_TEXT_OFFSET; + if (offset < 0) { + errno = -EINVAL; + die("Calculated a negative offset, probably elftoaout generated an invalid image. Did you use a recent elftoaout ?"); + } if (lseek(kernelfd, offset, SEEK_SET) < 0) die("lseek"); if (read(kernelfd, buffer, BUFSIZE) != BUFSIZE) |