2 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
3 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
4 # extract-vmlinux - Extract uncompressed vmlinux from a kernel image
6 # Inspired from extract-ikconfig
7 # (c) 2009,2010 Dick Streefland <dick@streefland.net>
9 # (c) 2011 Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
11 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
15 # Use readelf to check if it's a valid ELF
16 # TODO: find a better to way to check that it's really vmlinux
18 readelf -h $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || return 1
26 # The obscure use of the "tr" filter is to work around older versions of
27 # "grep" that report the byte offset of the line instead of the pattern.
29 # Try to find the header ($1) and decompress from here
30 for pos in `tr "$1\n$2" "\n$2=" < "$img" | grep -abo "^$2"`
33 tail -c+$pos "$img" | $3 > $tmp 2> /dev/null
41 if [ $# -ne 1 -o ! -s "$img" ]
43 echo "Usage: $me <kernel-image>" >&2
48 tmp=$(mktemp /tmp/vmlinux-XXX)
51 # That didn't work, so retry after decompression.
52 try_decompress '\037\213\010' xy gunzip
53 try_decompress '\3757zXZ\000' abcde unxz
54 try_decompress 'BZh' xy bunzip2
55 try_decompress '\135\0\0\0' xxx unlzma
56 try_decompress '\211\114\132' xy 'lzop -d'
57 try_decompress '\002!L\030' xxx 'lz4 -d'
58 try_decompress '(\265/\375' xxx unzstd
60 # Finally check for uncompressed images or objects:
64 echo "$me: Cannot find vmlinux." >&2