binman: Refuse to replace sections for now

Binman interfaces allow attempts to replace any entry in the image with
arbitrary data. When trying to replace sections, the changes in the
section entry's data are not propagated to its child entries. This,
combined with how sections rebuild their contents from its children,
eventually causes the replaced contents to be silently overwritten by
rebuilt contents equivalent to the original data.

Add a simple test for replacing a section that is currently failing due
to this behaviour, and mark it as an expected failure. Also, raise an
error when replacing a section instead of silently pretending it was
replaced.

Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

3 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/binman/etype/section.py b/tools/binman/etype/section.py
index ccac658c183..bd67238b919 100644
--- a/tools/binman/etype/section.py
+++ b/tools/binman/etype/section.py
@@ -788,6 +788,9 @@ class Entry_section(Entry):
                 data = new_data
         return data
 
+    def WriteData(self, data, decomp=True):
+        self.Raise("Replacing sections is not implemented yet")
+
     def WriteChildData(self, child):
         return True
 
diff --git a/tools/binman/ftest.py b/tools/binman/ftest.py
index 421754b1d0a..b5cf549703a 100644
--- a/tools/binman/ftest.py
+++ b/tools/binman/ftest.py
@@ -5693,6 +5693,15 @@ fdt         fdtmap                Extract the devicetree blob from the fdtmap
         self.assertIsNotNone(path)
         self.assertEqual(expected_fdtmap, fdtmap)
 
+    @unittest.expectedFailure
+    def testReplaceSectionSimple(self):
+        """Test replacing a simple section with arbitrary data"""
+        new_data = b'w' * len(COMPRESS_DATA + U_BOOT_DATA)
+        data, expected_fdtmap, _ = self._RunReplaceCmd(
+            'section', new_data,
+            dts='234_replace_section_simple.dts')
+        self.assertEqual(new_data, data)
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/234_replace_section_simple.dts b/tools/binman/test/234_replace_section_simple.dts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c9d5c328561
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/binman/test/234_replace_section_simple.dts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+/dts-v1/;
+
+/ {
+	binman {
+		allow-repack;
+
+		u-boot-dtb {
+		};
+
+		section {
+			blob {
+				filename = "compress";
+			};
+
+			u-boot {
+			};
+		};
+
+		fdtmap {
+		};
+	};
+};