Let ifmgmt.c take care of calling efree(), since it's the once which

took out the contract to eventually call efree() when it called fetch().

Maintain the most recently loaded image at the start of the list, so that
imgautoselect() will pick it.

src/core/image.c

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <vsprintf.h>
 #include <gpxe/list.h>
+#include <gpxe/emalloc.h>
 #include <gpxe/image.h>
 
 /** @file
@@ -72,6 +73,20 @@ void unregister_image ( struct image *image ) {
 	DBGC ( image, "IMAGE %p unregistered\n", image );
 }
 
+/**
+ * Move image to start of list of registered images
+ *
+ * @v image		Executable/loadable image
+ *
+ * Move the image to the start of the image list.  This makes it
+ * easier to keep track of which of the images marked as loaded is
+ * likely to still be valid.
+ */
+void promote_image ( struct image *image ) {
+	list_del ( &image->list );
+	list_add ( &image->list, &images );
+}
+
 /**
  * Find image by name
  *
@@ -90,18 +105,24 @@ struct image * find_image ( const char *name ) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Free loaded image
+ * Load executable/loadable image into memory
  *
  * @v image		Executable/loadable image
- *
- * This releases the memory being used to store the image; it does not
- * release the @c struct @c image itself, nor does it unregister the
- * image.
+ * @v type		Executable/loadable image type
+ * @ret rc		Return status code
  */
-void free_image ( struct image *image ) {
-	efree ( image->data );
-	image->data = UNULL;
-	image->len = 0;
+static int image_load_type ( struct image *image, struct image_type *type ) {
+	int rc;
+
+	if ( ( rc = type->load ( image ) ) != 0 ) {
+		DBGC ( image, "IMAGE %p could not load as %s: %s\n",
+		       image, type->name, strerror ( rc ) );
+		return rc;
+	}
+
+	/* Flag as loaded */
+	image->flags |= IMAGE_LOADED;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -111,18 +132,10 @@ void free_image ( struct image *image ) {
  * @ret rc		Return status code
  */
 int image_load ( struct image *image ) {
-	int rc;
 
 	assert ( image->type != NULL );
 
-	if ( ( rc = image->type->load ( image ) ) != 0 ) {
-		DBGC ( image, "IMAGE %p could not load: %s\n",
-		       image, strerror ( rc ) );
-		return rc;
-	}
-
-	image->flags |= IMAGE_LOADED;
-	return 0;
+	return image_load_type ( image, image->type );
 }
 
 /**
@@ -137,16 +150,10 @@ int image_autoload ( struct image *image ) {
 
 	for ( type = image_types ; type < image_types_end ; type++ ) {
 		DBGC ( image, "IMAGE %p trying type %s\n", image, type->name );
-		rc = type->load ( image );
+		rc = image_load_type ( image, type );
 		if ( image->type == NULL )
 			continue;
-		if ( rc != 0 ) {
-			DBGC ( image, "IMAGE %p (%s) could not load: %s\n",
-			       image, image->type->name, strerror ( rc ) );
-			return rc;
-		}
-		image->flags |= IMAGE_LOADED;
-		return 0;
+		return rc;
 	}
 
 	DBGC ( image, "IMAGE %p format not recognised\n", image );

src/include/gpxe/image.h

@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ extern struct list_head images;
 
 extern int register_image ( struct image *image );
 extern void unregister_image ( struct image *image );
+extern void promote_image ( struct image *image );
 struct image * find_image ( const char *name );
-extern void free_image ( struct image *image );
 extern int image_load ( struct image *image );
 extern int image_autoload ( struct image *image );
 extern int image_exec ( struct image *image );

src/usr/imgmgmt.c

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <vsprintf.h>
 #include <gpxe/image.h>
+#include <gpxe/emalloc.h>
 #include <usr/fetch.h>
 #include <usr/imgmgmt.h>
 
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ int imgfetch ( const char *filename, const char *name,
 	return 0;
 
  err:
-	free_image ( image );
+	efree ( image->data );
 	free ( image );
 	return rc;
 }
@@ -77,7 +78,16 @@ int imgfetch ( const char *filename, const char *name,
  * @ret rc		Return status code
  */
 int imgload ( struct image *image ) {
-	return image_autoload ( image );
+	int rc;
+
+	/* Try to load image */
+	if ( ( rc = image_autoload ( image ) ) != 0 )
+		return rc;
+
+	/* If we succeed, move the image to the start of the list */
+	promote_image ( image );
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -129,6 +139,6 @@ void imgstat ( struct image *image ) {
  */
 void imgfree ( struct image *image ) {
 	unregister_image ( image );
-	free_image ( image );
+	efree ( image->data );
 	free ( image );
 }