[PATCH] bootconfig: Fix negative seeks on 32-bit with LFS enabled
From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Aug 17 2025 - 10:22:05 EST
Commit 26dda5769509 "tools/bootconfig: Cleanup bootconfig footer size
calculations" replaced some expressions of type int with the
BOOTCONFIG_FOOTER_SIZE macro, which expands to an expression of type
size_t, which is unsigned.
On 32-bit architectures with LFS enabled (i.e. off_t is 64-bit), the
seek offset of -BOOTCONFIG_FOOTER_SIZE now turns into a positive
value.
Fix this by casting the size to off_t before negating it.
Just in case someone changes BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC_LEN to have type size_t
later, do the same thing to the seek offset of -BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC_LEN.
Fixes: 26dda5769509 ("tools/bootconfig: Cleanup bootconfig footer size calculations")
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <benh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/bootconfig/main.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/main.c b/tools/bootconfig/main.c
index 57c669d2aa90..55d59ed507d5 100644
--- a/tools/bootconfig/main.c
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/main.c
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ static int load_xbc_from_initrd(int fd, char **buf)
if (stat.st_size < BOOTCONFIG_FOOTER_SIZE)
return 0;
- if (lseek(fd, -BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC_LEN, SEEK_END) < 0)
+ if (lseek(fd, -(off_t)BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC_LEN, SEEK_END) < 0)
return pr_errno("Failed to lseek for magic", -errno);
if (read(fd, magic, BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC_LEN) < 0)
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static int load_xbc_from_initrd(int fd, char **buf)
if (memcmp(magic, BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC, BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC_LEN) != 0)
return 0;
- if (lseek(fd, -BOOTCONFIG_FOOTER_SIZE, SEEK_END) < 0)
+ if (lseek(fd, -(off_t)BOOTCONFIG_FOOTER_SIZE, SEEK_END) < 0)
return pr_errno("Failed to lseek for size", -errno);
if (read(fd, &size, sizeof(uint32_t)) < 0)
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