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Description of Change

A bootloader self-update stages at 0xE0000 and overwrites the tail of any app that reaches past it. Such an app is now marked invalid first, so the board comes up with no app instead of booting a corrupted one. A recorded size spanning the whole region, left by a full-region CURRENT.UF2 restore, is treated as unknown.

Tested on the Wio Tracker L1: from a full-region restore, the previous guard left the drive with the app invalidated (2 of 2) and this one boots the app back (2 of 2). No current app is big enough to make the guard fire for real.

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  • During bootloader self-updates, bank 0 is invalidated before staging when the staged image overlaps the tail of a valid installed application. This applies to applications larger than 744 KB on S140 6.1.1 or 740 KB on S140 7.3.0.

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The bootloader update path checks bank 0 before staging. It invalidates the application when the recorded size meets the specified conditions and exceeds the staging boundary. The changelog lists the affected size thresholds.

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Bootloader update safety

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Application check before staging src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c, changelog.md	write_block invalidates bank 0 before staging when the application is valid and its recorded size exceeds the staging boundary, subject to size checks. The comment and changelog describe the boundary and affected thresholds.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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A rejected update block can leave an intact application unbootable on devices with a qualifying large app. Move invalidation to the accepted staging path before merging.

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It guards the app’s old tail before the staged blocks grow.
The bootloader marks it invalid when its size crosses the line,
Then leaves the device in DFU, as the changelog signs.
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Review comments at @src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c:
- Around line 566-568: Move the `app_invalidated` update and bank-0 erase
processing out of the early bootloader-family block and into the accepted
bootloader-write path, after the UICR and bootloader-ID checks pass and
immediately before `flash_nrf5x_write()`. Ensure rejected blocks do not
invalidate or erase bank 0.

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