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x86/efi: Include a .bss section within the PE/COFF headers
authorMichael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:26:20 +0000 (12:26 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:02:44 +0000 (18:02 +0200)
commit9e6e90fce2c4cdd721229855a32e4c266e323ff3
tree21d31a5d8e5114fea1c4c6d9fa02f0d5261ea97e
parent5c8c5c98c79c08f34f28dd24e5dc385cbc6bf148
x86/efi: Include a .bss section within the PE/COFF headers

commit c7fb93ec51d462ec3540a729ba446663c26a0505 upstream.

The PE/COFF headers currently describe only the initialised-data
portions of the image, and result in no space being allocated for the
uninitialised-data portions.  Consequently, the EFI boot stub will end
up overwriting unexpected areas of memory, with unpredictable results.

Fix by including a .bss section in the PE/COFF headers (functionally
equivalent to the init_size field in the bzImage header).

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>
Cc: Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
arch/x86/boot/header.S
arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c