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authorCarl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>2008-07-03 14:40:06 +0000
committerCarl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>2008-07-03 14:40:06 +0000
commit039b8480664d8b709b7d5806b627e6f876afdb67 (patch)
treee86673e63ce7d35cef7b2e6a5c7404f73627e687 /util
parentf74c208256003d5c52f2f40480bec1f755c8ee9f (diff)
Improve coreboot image detection heuristic in flashrom. It's not
absolutely perfect, but the likelihood of this check to fail is 0.000000000000000000000000013 (1.3*10^-26) which is good enough for me. Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de> git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@3408 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1
Diffstat (limited to 'util')
-rw-r--r--util/flashrom/layout.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/util/flashrom/layout.c b/util/flashrom/layout.c
index a738fb22d5..f41e0ea364 100644
--- a/util/flashrom/layout.c
+++ b/util/flashrom/layout.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include "flash.h"
@@ -57,7 +58,18 @@ int show_id(uint8_t *bios, int size, int force)
walk--;
}
- if ((*walk) == 0 || ((*walk) & 0x3ff) != 0) {
+ /*
+ * Check if coreboot last image size is 0 or not a multiple of 1k or
+ * bigger than the chip or if the pointers to vendor ID or mainboard ID
+ * are outside the image of if the start of ID strings are nonsensical
+ * (nonprintable and not \0).
+ */
+ if ((*walk) == 0 || ((*walk) & 0x3ff) != 0 || *walk > size ||
+ *(walk - 1) > size || *(walk - 2) > size ||
+ (!isprint((const char *)(bios + size - *(walk - 1))) &&
+ ((const char *)(bios + size - *(walk - 1)))) ||
+ (!isprint((const char *)(bios + size - *(walk - 2))) &&
+ ((const char *)(bios + size - *(walk - 2))))) {
printf("Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.\n");
mainboard_vendor = def_name;
mainboard_part = def_name;