[syslinux] Bugs in pxelinux.asm - syslinux 3.75
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Fri Apr 24 15:01:08 PDT 2009
pfranz73 at tiscali.it wrote:
> In pxelinux.asm
> the xchg instruction in
>
> xchg ax,ax
> .
> data_on_top:
>
> should be xchg ax,dx, I think
> At the end of
> pxe_get_cached_info routine,there is
> and ax,ax
>
> jnz .err
> It is supposed to test for AX status, but
> since pxenv does pushad and popad, AX doesn't contain status. In fact
> the other routines calling pxenv don't have this bug.
> pxe_unload seems
> to be never called; if so, also RealBaseMem is unused.
> According to the
> specification, pxe_unload_stack_pkt.reserved are 10 bytes, not 10 words
>
unload_pxe is called via the UNLOAD_PREP macro as well as from comboot.inc.
The other issues are valid, of course.
-hpa
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