When asking mkimage to create a new image file and option -d is not specified then mkimage show human unfriendly error message:
mkimage: Can't open (null): Bad address Without debugger it is hard to debug what is the issue. Function open() is being called with file name set to NULL. So add a check for this and if it happens then show human readable message that option -d was not specified. Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <p...@kernel.org> --- tools/mkimage.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/mkimage.c b/tools/mkimage.c index 955a1f39a419..c53768f8d8de 100644 --- a/tools/mkimage.c +++ b/tools/mkimage.c @@ -568,6 +568,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) } if ((params.type != IH_TYPE_MULTI) && (params.type != IH_TYPE_SCRIPT)) { + if (!params.datafile) { + fprintf(stderr, "%s: Option -d with image data file was not specified\n", + params.cmdname); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } dfd = open(params.datafile, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY); if (dfd < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: Can't open %s: %s\n", -- 2.20.1