kconfig: have extract-ikconfig read ELF files

It would be nice to use extract-ikconfig to find the congfig.gz
in either vmlinux (not vmlinuz) or configs.ko.

This patch changes the script to also be able to read ELF files directly.

[ Impact: find config.gz in vmlinux and configs.ko ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/extract-ikconfig b/scripts/extract-ikconfig
index 42d6bcefb400..de233ff43c1c 100755
--- a/scripts/extract-ikconfig
+++ b/scripts/extract-ikconfig
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ dump_config "$image"
 GZHDR1="0x1f 0x8b 0x08 0x00"
 GZHDR2="0x1f 0x8b 0x08 0x08"
 
+ELFHDR="0x7f 0x45 0x4c 0x46"
+
 # vmlinux.gz: Check for a compressed images
 off=`$binoffset "$image" $GZHDR1 2>/dev/null`
 [ "$?" != "0" ] && off="-1"
@@ -73,6 +75,14 @@ elif [ "$off" -ne "-1" ]; then
         (dd ibs="$off" skip=1 count=0 && dd bs=512k) <"$image" 2>/dev/null | \
                 zcat >"$TMPFILE"
         dump_config "$TMPFILE"
+
+# check if this is simply an ELF file
+else
+        off=`$binoffset "$image" $ELFHDR 2>/dev/null`
+        [ "$?" != "0" ] && off="-1"
+        if [ "$off" -eq "0" ]; then
+                dump_config "$image"
+        fi
 fi
 
 echo "ERROR: Unable to extract kernel configuration information."