binman: Add a way to check for a valid ELF file

Add a function which checks whether data is in ELF format or not. This
will be used by binman to check this for entries.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

tools/binman/elf.py

@@ -518,3 +518,18 @@ def read_loadable_segments(data):
             rend = start + segment['p_filesz']
             segments.append((i, segment['p_paddr'], data[start:rend]))
     return segments, entry
+
+def is_valid(data):
+    """Check if some binary data is a valid ELF file
+
+    Args:
+        data (bytes): Bytes to check
+
+    Returns:
+        bool: True if a valid Elf file, False if not
+    """
+    try:
+        DecodeElf(data, 0)
+        return True
+    except ELFError:
+        return False