Author: hailfinger
Date: 2008-07-03 16:40:06 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jul 2008)
New Revision: 3408

Modified:
   trunk/util/flashrom/layout.c
Log:
Improve coreboot image detection heuristic in flashrom. It's not
absolutely perfect, but the likelihood of this check to fail is
0.000000000000000000000000013 (1.3*10^-26) which is good enough for me.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 


Modified: trunk/util/flashrom/layout.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/util/flashrom/layout.c        2008-07-02 17:15:47 UTC (rev 3407)
+++ trunk/util/flashrom/layout.c        2008-07-03 14:40:06 UTC (rev 3408)
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include "flash.h"
 
@@ -57,7 +58,18 @@
                walk--;
        }
 
-       if ((*walk) == 0 || ((*walk) & 0x3ff) != 0) {
+       /*
+        * Check if coreboot last image size is 0 or not a multiple of 1k or
+        * bigger than the chip or if the pointers to vendor ID or mainboard ID
+        * are outside the image of if the start of ID strings are nonsensical
+        * (nonprintable and not \0).
+        */
+       if ((*walk) == 0 || ((*walk) & 0x3ff) != 0 || *walk > size ||
+               *(walk - 1) > size || *(walk - 2) > size ||
+               (!isprint((const char *)(bios + size - *(walk - 1))) &&
+               ((const char *)(bios + size - *(walk - 1)))) ||
+               (!isprint((const char *)(bios + size - *(walk - 2))) &&
+               ((const char *)(bios + size - *(walk - 2))))) {
                printf("Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling 
checks.\n");
                mainboard_vendor = def_name;
                mainboard_part = def_name;


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