On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 03:32:18PM +0530, Sudhakar Kuppusamy wrote:
> The grub-mkimage does not check if the SBAT metadata file is empty or not when
> creating core image with the SBAT metadata file. It leads to adding the empty 
> SBAT
> ELF note for PowerPC and the .sbat section for EFI. Fixing this by checking 
> the
> SBAT metadata file size before adding it to the ELF note or .sbat section.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Kuppusamy <[email protected]>
> ---
>  util/mkimage.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/util/mkimage.c b/util/mkimage.c
> index f364a5718..7ca580e98 100644
> --- a/util/mkimage.c
> +++ b/util/mkimage.c
> @@ -963,6 +963,12 @@ grub_install_generate_image (const char *dir, const char 
> *prefix,
>
>    if (sbat_path != NULL && (image_target->id != IMAGE_EFI && 
> image_target->id != IMAGE_PPC))
>      grub_util_error (_("SBAT data can be added only to EFI or 
> powerpc-ieee1275 images"));
> +  else if (sbat_path != NULL)
> +    {
> +      sbat_size = grub_util_get_image_size (sbat_path);
> +      if (!sbat_size)

I think it is not fully correct. SBAT should contain at least header.

Daniel

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