With Chrome OS the kernel setup block is stored in a separate place from
the kernel, so it is not possible to access the kernel version string.
At present, garbage is printed.

Add a sanity check to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com>
---

(no changes since v1)

 arch/x86/lib/zimage.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c b/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c
index 7418c9a5fed..d425ded596d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <asm/arch/timestamp.h>
 #endif
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/libfdt.h>
 
 /*
@@ -175,11 +176,19 @@ static const char *get_kernel_version(struct boot_params 
*params,
 {
        struct setup_header *hdr = &params->hdr;
        int bootproto;
+       const char *s, *end;
 
        bootproto = get_boot_protocol(hdr, false);
        if (bootproto < 0x0200 || hdr->setup_sects < 15)
                return NULL;
 
+       /* sanity-check the kernel version in case it is missing */
+       for (s = kernel_base + hdr->kernel_version + 0x200, end = s + 0x100; *s;
+            s++) {
+               if (!isprint(*s))
+                       return NULL;
+       }
+
        return kernel_base + hdr->kernel_version + 0x200;
 }
 
-- 
2.29.1.341.ge80a0c044ae-goog

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