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Stefan Hajnoczi
b149a99302 [build] Round up SUBx deltas
The zbin compressor fixup utility rounds down file sizes before
calculating their difference.  This produces incorrect values and may
cause truncated gPXE images to be loaded at boot.

The following example explains the problem:
ilen    = 48 bytes     (uncompressed input file)
olen    = 17 bytes     (compressed output file)
divisor = 16 bytes     (paragraph granularity)
fixmeup = 3 paragraphs (value to fix up)

olen / divisor - ilen / divisor
= 1 - 3
= -2 paragraphs  (old delta calculation)

( align ( olen, divisor ) - align ( ilen, divisor ) ) / divisor
= 2 - 3
= -1 paragraphs  (new delta calculation)

If we perform the SUBx operation with old delta:
fixmeup + -2 = 1 paragraph gets loaded by the prefix

With the new delta:
fixmeup + -1 = 2 paragraphs get loaded by the prefix

The old delta calculation removes the last paragraph; the prefix will
load a truncated copy of gPXE into memory.  We need to load 2
paragraphs since olen is 17 bytes.  Loading only 1 paragraph (16
bytes) would truncate the last byte.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@etherboot.org>
2009-04-15 16:14:47 +01:00
Michael Brown
96ea558e98 [util] Add optional debug messages to zbin.c 2008-10-10 03:42:08 +01:00
Eygene Ryabinkin
6de45ad4ae [util] Avoid calling fclose(NULL) in zbin.c
Must check that argument to a fclose() is not NULL -- we can get to the
'err' label when file was not opened.  fclose(NULL) is known to produce
core dump on some platforms and we don't want zbin to fail so loudly.

Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>
2008-09-04 11:29:37 +01:00
Michael Brown
048bbeeebc Compressed ROM images now work. 2007-07-16 16:58:38 +01:00