During linux build process the header size is computed including the BSS whereas it's removed when creating the uncompressed image. Therefore the size of the uncompressed image on filesystem will be smaller than the size specified in the header.
This causes issues when loading the kernel image from the SPL (as in falcon boot) with spl_load since it compares the read file size from the FS to the header size form the image. Which leads to the following check in `include/spl_load.h` failing to -EIO when loading kernel image: return read < spl_image->size ? -EIO : 0; Therefore we should return the header size back to spl_load instead of the file size in falcon boot when loading kernel image. Bug report: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20250214111656.2358748-1-ansh...@ti.com/ Fixes: 775074165d97 ("spl: Add generic spl_load function") Reported-by: Anshul Dalal <ansh...@ti.com> Reviewed-by: Sean Anderson <sean...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Anshul Dalal <ansh...@ti.com> --- common/spl/spl_ext.c | 4 ++++ common/spl/spl_fat.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/common/spl/spl_ext.c b/common/spl/spl_ext.c index c5478820a9b..6d8d6544092 100644 --- a/common/spl/spl_ext.c +++ b/common/spl/spl_ext.c @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ static ulong spl_fit_read(struct spl_load_info *load, ulong file_offset, ret = ext4fs_read(buf, file_offset, size, &actlen); if (ret) return ret; + + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMD_BOOTI)) + return size; + return actlen; } diff --git a/common/spl/spl_fat.c b/common/spl/spl_fat.c index fce451b7664..ddf85e2cece 100644 --- a/common/spl/spl_fat.c +++ b/common/spl/spl_fat.c @@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ static ulong spl_fit_read(struct spl_load_info *load, ulong file_offset, if (ret) return ret; + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMD_BOOTI)) + return size; + return actread; } -- 2.43.0
