When verifying the validity of IHEX file we need to make sure that zero-length record we found is located at the end of the file. Not doing that could result in an invalid file with a bogus zero-length in the middle short-circuiting the check and being reported as valid.
Cc: Chris Healy <cphe...@gmail.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <k...@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smir...@gmail.com> --- include/linux/ihex.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/ihex.h b/include/linux/ihex.h index 9c701521176b..9130f307a420 100644 --- a/include/linux/ihex.h +++ b/include/linux/ihex.h @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static inline int ihex_validate_fw(const struct firmware *fw) for (; rec <= end; rec = __ihex_next_binrec(rec)) { /* Zero length marks end of records */ - if (!be16_to_cpu(rec->len)) + if (rec == end && !be16_to_cpu(rec->len)) return 0; } return -EINVAL; -- 2.19.1