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Rafał Miłecki
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When bcm47xxpart finds a TRX partition (container) it's supposed to jump to the end of it and keep looking for more partitions. TRX and its subpartitions are handled by a separate parser. The problem with old code was relying on the length specified in a TRX header. That isn't reliable as TRX is commonly modified to have checksum cover only non-changing subpartitions. Otherwise modifying e.g. a rootfs would result in CRC32 mismatch and bootloader refusing to boot a firmware. Fix it by trying better to figure out a real TRX size. We can securely assume that TRX has to cover all subpartitions and the last one is at least of a block size in size. Then compare it with a length field. This makes code more optimal & reliable thanks to skipping data that shouldn't be parsed. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Linux kernel
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