Hi,

Don't wholeheartedly copy the 32-Kbytes bzImage header area to the stack,
just use a constant pointer instead.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <[email protected]>
---

(If this is accepted, I'll send a similar patch for the setup header)

diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c b/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c
index 83d3a69..2312eb8 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c
@@ -43,32 +43,32 @@ static const int probe_debug = 0;
 
 int bzImage_probe(const char *buf, off_t len)
 {
-       struct x86_linux_header header;
+       const struct x86_linux_header *header;
        if ((uintmax_t)len < (uintmax_t)sizeof(header)) {
                return -1;
        }
-       memcpy(&header, buf, sizeof(header));
-       if (memcmp(header.header_magic, "HdrS", 4) != 0) {
+       header = (void *)buf;
+       if (memcmp(header->header_magic, "HdrS", 4) != 0) {
                if (probe_debug) {
                        fprintf(stderr, "Not a bzImage\n");
                }
                return -1;
        }
-       if (header.boot_sector_magic != 0xAA55) {
+       if (header->boot_sector_magic != 0xAA55) {
                if (probe_debug) {
                        fprintf(stderr, "No x86 boot sector present\n");
                }
                /* No x86 boot sector present */
                return -1;
        }
-       if (header.protocol_version < 0x0200) {
+       if (header->protocol_version < 0x0200) {
                if (probe_debug) {
                        fprintf(stderr, "Must be at least protocol version 
2.00\n");
                }
                /* Must be at least protocol version 2.00 */
                return -1;
        }
-       if ((header.loadflags & 1) == 0) {
+       if ((header->loadflags & 1) == 0) {
                if (probe_debug) {
                        fprintf(stderr, "zImage not a bzImage\n");
                }

thanks,

-- 
Darwish
http://darwish.07.googlepages.com

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