On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 10:06:44PM +0200, Alexander Egorenkov wrote:
> If the passed zImage happens to have a DTB appended, then the magic 4 bytes
> of the DTB are copied together with the kernel image. This leads to
> failed kexec boots because the decompressor finds the aforementioned
> DTB magic and falsely tries to replace the DTB passed in the register r2
> with the non-existent appended one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <[email protected]>

Hi,

I also see that, on line 558 len is further expanded as follows:

        /*
         * The zImage length does not include its stack (4k) or its
         * malloc space (64k).  Include this.
         */
        len += 0x11000;

Is it intentional that this patch also excludes this extra length
from the DTB? Or am I missing something?

> ---
>  kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c 
> b/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c
> index 925a9be..8ec289d 100644
> --- a/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c
> +++ b/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c
> @@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char 
> *buf, off_t len,
>       unsigned int atag_offset = 0x1000; /* 4k offset from memory start */
>       unsigned int extra_size = 0x8000; /* TEXT_OFFSET */
>       const struct zimage_tag *tag;
> +     size_t kernel_buf_size;
>       size_t kernel_mem_size;
>       const char *command_line;
>       char *modified_cmdline = NULL;
> @@ -537,6 +538,8 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char 
> *buf, off_t len,
>               }
>       }
>  
> +     kernel_buf_size = len;
> +
>       /*
>        * Always extend the zImage by four bytes to ensure that an appended
>        * DTB image always sees an initialised value after _edata.
> @@ -759,7 +762,7 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char 
> *buf, off_t len,
>               add_segment(info, dtb_buf, dtb_length, dtb_offset, dtb_length);
>       }
>  
> -     add_segment(info, buf, len, kernel_base, kernel_mem_size);
> +     add_segment(info, buf, kernel_buf_size, kernel_base, kernel_mem_size);
>  
>       info->entry = (void*)kernel_base;
>  
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 
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