Hi Franco,

On 7/30/24 09:30, Franco Venturi wrote:
Fix signed vs unsigned compare in read check in _spl_load()

Issue: when info->read() returns a negative value because of an error,
        the comparison of 'read' (signed) with 'sizeof(*header)'
        (unsigned silently converts the negative value into a very
        large unsigned value and the check on the error condition
        always return false, i.e. the error is not detected
Symptoms: if spl_load_image_fat() is unable to find the file 'uImage',
           the SPL phase of the boot process just hangs after displaying
           the following line:
           Trying to boot from MMC1
Fix: first check if 'read' is negative then check its value against
      'sizeof(*header)'
Reference: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17293749/sizeof-operator-in-if-statement

Signed-off-by: Franco Venturi <fvent...@comcast.net>
---

  include/spl_load.h | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/spl_load.h b/include/spl_load.h
index 1c2b296c0a..1e05599d29 100644
--- a/include/spl_load.h
+++ b/include/spl_load.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ static inline int _spl_load(struct spl_image_info *spl_image,
read = info->read(info, offset, ALIGN(sizeof(*header),
                                              spl_get_bl_len(info)), header);
-       if (read < sizeof(*header))
+       if (read < 0 || read < sizeof(*header))
                return -EIO;
if (image_get_magic(header) == FDT_MAGIC) {

Since read and int and sizeof(*header) < INT_MAX, I think the best solution is
to cast the latter to an int.

--Sean

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