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This script can be used to extract vmlinux from a compressed
kernel image (bzImage, etc..). It's inspired from (a subset of)
extract-ikconfig.

It's something a lot of people have been looking for (mainly
people with xen < 4 that doesn't support bzImages at all).

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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#!/bin/sh
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# extract-vmlinux - Extract uncompressed vmlinux from a kernel image
#
# Inspired from extract-ikconfig
# (c) 2009,2010 Dick Streefland <dick@streefland.net>
#
# (c) 2011 Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
#
# Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2).
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

check_vmlinux()
{
# Use readelf to check if it's a valid ELF
# TODO: find a better to way to check that it's really vmlinux
# and not just an elf
readelf -h $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || return 1

cat $1
exit 0
}

try_decompress()
{
# The obscure use of the "tr" filter is to work around older versions of
# "grep" that report the byte offset of the line instead of the pattern.

# Try to find the header ($1) and decompress from here
for pos in `tr "$1\n$2" "\n$2=" < "$img" | grep -abo "^$2"`
do
pos=${pos%%:*}
tail -c+$pos "$img" | $3 > $tmp 2> /dev/null
check_vmlinux $tmp
done
}

# Check invocation:
me=${0##*/}
img=$1
if [ $# -ne 1 -o ! -s "$img" ]
then
echo "Usage: $me <kernel-image>" >&2
exit 2
fi

# Prepare temp files:
tmp=$(mktemp /tmp/vmlinux-XXX)
trap "rm -f $tmp" 0

# Initial attempt for uncompressed images or objects:
check_vmlinux $img

# That didn't work, so retry after decompression.
try_decompress '\037\213\010' xy gunzip
try_decompress '\3757zXZ\000' abcde unxz
try_decompress 'BZh' xy bunzip2
try_decompress '\135\0\0\0' xxx unlzma
try_decompress '\211\114\132' xy 'lzop -d'

# Bail out:
echo "$me: Cannot find vmlinux." >&2

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