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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ARM: Fix zImage file size not aligned with CONFIG_EFI_STUB enabled
On 24 October 2017 at 10:22, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:13:09AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On 24 October 2017 at 10:09, Russell King - ARM Linux
>> <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>> > The question is: do we want to know when additional sections get
>> > emitted into the binary?
>>
>> Well, we need to know whether the size of zImage is a multiple of 512
>> bytes. We could check that separately by adding the following as well
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_STUB
>> ASSERT((_edata % 512 == 0), "zImage file size is not a multiple of 512 bytes")
>
> ASSERT((_edata - _text) % 512 == 0, "EFI zImage file size is not a multiple of 512 bytes")
>
> This would only catch them when EFI is enabled, which doesn't give very
> good build coverage. I still prefer my solution over adding the assert
> and a section for _edata - my solution catches it with EFI disabled as
> well.
>
> A variant on that would be this, which should catch additional sections
> for EFI and non-EFI:
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> index b38dcef90756..9d0c5d80979a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ SECTIONS
>
> _edata = .;
>
> + .image_end (NOLOAD) : {
> + _image_end = .;
> + }
> +
> _magic_sig = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(0x016f2818);
> _magic_start = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(_start);
> _magic_end = ZIMAGE_MAGIC(_edata);
> @@ -119,3 +123,5 @@ SECTIONS
> .stab.indexstr 0 : { *(.stab.indexstr) }
> .comment 0 : { *(.comment) }
> }
> +
> +ASSERT(image_end == end, "zImage file size is incorrect")
>

I take it you mean

_image_end == _edata

here? That works for me:

Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

(with CONFIG_EFI enabled)

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