Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.7] s390x: fix flat rom load on 32 bit systems

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:08:22 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> pc-bios/s390-zipl.rom is a flat image so it's expected that
> loading it as elf will fail.
> It should fall back on loading a flat file, but doesn't
> on 32 bit systems, instead it fails printing:
>     qemu: hardware error: could not load bootloader 's390-zipl.rom'
> 
> The result is boot failure.
> 
> The reason is that a 64 bit unsigned interger which is set
> to -1 on error is compared to -1UL which on a 32 bit system
> with gcc is a 32 bit unsigned interger.
> Since both are unsigned, no sign extension takes place and
> comparison evaluates to non-equal.
> 
> There's no reason to do clever tricks: -1 will cause
> sign extension to happen correctly automatically.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> ---
>  hw/s390x/ipl.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/s390x/ipl.c b/hw/s390x/ipl.c
> index d69adb2..88115e9 100644
> --- a/hw/s390x/ipl.c
> +++ b/hw/s390x/ipl.c
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static int s390_ipl_init(SysBusDevice *dev)
> 
>          bios_size = load_elf(bios_filename, NULL, NULL, &ipl->start_addr, NULL,
>                               NULL, 1, ELF_MACHINE, 0);
> -        if (bios_size == -1UL) {
> +        if (bios_size == -1) {
>              bios_size = load_image_targphys(bios_filename, ZIPL_IMAGE_START,
>                                              4096);
>              ipl->start_addr = ZIPL_IMAGE_START;

Makes sense, but doesn't the kernel loader just below suffer from just
the same problem?