Re: [PATCH] hw/core: properly terminate loading .hex on EOF record

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 4/1/20 9:38 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> The https://makecode.microbit.org/#editor generates slightly weird
> .hex files which work fine on a real microbit but causes QEMU to
> choke. The reason is extraneous data after the EOF record which causes
> the loader to attempt to write a bigger file than it should to the
> "rom". According to the HEX file spec an EOF really should be the last
> thing we process so lets do that.
>
> Reported-by: Ursula Bennée <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
> ---
>   hw/core/loader.c | 5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/core/loader.c b/hw/core/loader.c
> index eeef6da9a1b..8bbb1797a4c 100644
> --- a/hw/core/loader.c
> +++ b/hw/core/loader.c
> @@ -1447,6 +1447,7 @@ typedef struct {
>       uint32_t current_rom_index;
>       uint32_t rom_start_address;
>       AddressSpace *as;
> +    bool complete;
>   } HexParser;
>   
>   /* return size or -1 if error */
> @@ -1484,6 +1485,7 @@ static int handle_record_type(HexParser *parser)
>                                     parser->current_rom_index,
>                                     parser->rom_start_address, parser->as);
>           }
> +        parser->complete = true;
>           return parser->total_size;
>       case EXT_SEG_ADDR_RECORD:
>       case EXT_LINEAR_ADDR_RECORD:
> @@ -1548,11 +1550,12 @@ static int parse_hex_blob(const char *filename, hwaddr 
> *addr, uint8_t *hex_blob,
>           .bin_buf = g_malloc(hex_blob_size),
>           .start_addr = addr,
>           .as = as,
> +        .complete = false
>       };
>   
>       rom_transaction_begin();
>   
> -    for (; hex_blob < end; ++hex_blob) {
> +    for (; hex_blob < end && !parser.complete; ++hex_blob) {
>           switch (*hex_blob) {
>           case '\r':
>           case '\n':

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>