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Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] linux/arm: fix ARM Linux header layout


From: Leif Lindholm
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] linux/arm: fix ARM Linux header layout
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 12:31:05 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 13:19:47 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 13:11, Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 14:49:34 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > The hdr_offset member of the ARM Linux image header appears at
> > > offset 0x3c, matching the PE/COFF spec's placement of the COFF
> > > header offset in the MS-DOS header. We're currently off by four,
> > > so fix that.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>
> > > ---
> > >  include/grub/arm/linux.h | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/grub/arm/linux.h b/include/grub/arm/linux.h
> > > index 2e98a6689696..bcd5a7eb186e 100644
> > > --- a/include/grub/arm/linux.h
> > > +++ b/include/grub/arm/linux.h
> > > @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ struct linux_arm_kernel_header {
> > >    grub_uint32_t magic;
> > >    grub_uint32_t start; /* _start */
> > >    grub_uint32_t end;   /* _edata */
> > > -  grub_uint32_t reserved2[4];
> > > +  grub_uint32_t reserved2[3];
> > >    grub_uint32_t hdr_offset;
> >
> > How did this ever work?
> >
> 
> By ignoring the value of hdr_offset entirely everywhere else

Oh, right - we only bother checking magic, doh!

/
    Leif



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