On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 10:17 PM Michael Walle <mich...@walle.cc> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Am 2020-05-05 20:41, schrieb Simon Glass: > > Hi Tom, > > > > On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 11:50, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 06:39:58PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > >> > On 5/5/20 6:37 PM, Alex Kiernan wrote: > >> > > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 2:28 PM Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> On 5/5/20 3:22 PM, Alex Kiernan wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 12:28 PM Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > >> > >>>> > >> > >>>> On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 05:40:25PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > >> > >>>> > >> > >>>>> There is no reason to tail-pad fitImage with external data to > >> > >>>>> 4-bytes, > >> > >>>>> while fitImage without external data does not have any such > >> > >>>>> padding and > >> > >>>>> is often unaligned. DT spec also does not mandate any such padding. > >> > >>>>> > >> > >>>>> Moreover, the tail-pad fills the last few bytes with uninitialized > >> > >>>>> data, > >> > >>>>> which could lead to a potential information leak. > >> > >>>>> > >> > >>>>> $ echo -n xy > /tmp/data ; \ > >> > >>>>> ./tools/mkimage -E -f auto -d /tmp/data /tmp/fitImage ; \ > >> > >>>>> hexdump -vC /tmp/fitImage | tail -n 3 > >> > >>>>> > >> > >>>>> before: > >> > >>>>> 00000260 61 2d 6f 66 66 73 65 74 00 64 61 74 61 2d 73 69 > >> > >>>>> |a-offset.data-si| > >> > >>>>> 00000270 7a 65 00 00 78 79 64 64 > >> > >>>>> |ze..xydd| > >> > >>>>> ^^ ^^ ^^ > >> > >>>>> after: > >> > >>>>> 00000260 61 2d 6f 66 66 73 65 74 00 64 61 74 61 2d 73 69 > >> > >>>>> |a-offset.data-si| > >> > >>>>> 00000270 7a 65 00 78 79 |ze.xy| > >> > >>>>> > >> > >>>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> > >> > >>>>> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> > >> > >>>>> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> > >> > >>>>> Cc: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> > >> > >>>> > >> > >>>> Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! > >> > >>>> > >> > >>> > >> > >>> This breaks booting on my board (am3352, eMMC boot, FIT u-boot, > >> > >>> CONFIG_SPL_LOAD_FIT). Not got any useful diagnostics - if I boot it > >> > >>> from eMMC I get nothing at all on the console, if I boot over ymodem > >> > >>> it stalls at 420k, before continuing to 460k. My guess is there's > >> > >>> some > >> > >>> error going to the console at the 420k mark, but obviously it's lost > >> > >>> in the ymodem... I have two DTBs in the FIT image, 420k would about > >> > >>> align to the point between them. > >> > >> > >> > >> My bet would be on some padding / unaligned access problem that this > >> > >> patch uncovered. Can you take a look ? > >> > > > >> > > Seems plausible. With this change my external data starts at 0x483 and > >> > > everything after it is non-aligned: > >> > > >> > Should the beginning of external data be aligned ? > >> > >> If in U-Boot we revert e8c2d25845c72c7202a628a97d45e31beea40668 does > >> the > >> problem go away? If so, that's not a fix outright, it means we need > >> to > >> dig back in to the libfdt thread and find the "make this work without > >> killing performance everywhere all the time" option. > > > > If it is a device tree, it must be 32-bit aligned. > > This commit actually breaks my board too (which I was just about to send > upstream, but realized it was broken). > > Said board uses SPL and main U-Boot. SPL runs fine and main u-boot > doesn't > output anything. The only difference which I found is that fit-dtb.blob > is > 2 bytes shorter. And the content is shifted by one byte although > data-offset is the same. Strange. In the non-working case, the inner > FDT magic isn't 4 byte aligned. > > You can find the two fit-dtb.blobs here: > > https://walle.cc/u-boot/fit-dtb.blob.working > https://walle.cc/u-boot/fit-dtb.blob.non-working > > > Reverting e8c2d25845c72c7202a628a97d45e31beea40668 doesn't help (I might > reverted it the wrong way, there is actually a conflict). >
I just did the same thing by manually extracting the patches and I agree, reverting that doesn't fix the problem. > I'll dig deeper into that tomorrow, but maybe you have some pointers > where > to look. > > For reference you can find the current patch here: > https://github.com/mwalle/u-boot/tree/sl28-upstream > > > > > But Marek's patch affects the FIT image itself, so I am not sure what > > would go after that. > > > > Regards, > > Simon > > -- > -michael -- Alex Kiernan