Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 2 authors, 2017-02-10
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Re: [PATCH v2 05/14] arm64: efi: remove forbidden values from the PE/COFF header

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: 2017-02-10 10:13:29
Also in: linux-arm-kernel

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 11:55:38AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
Bring the PE/COFF header in line with the PE/COFF spec, by setting
NumberOfSymbols to 0, and removing the section alignment flags.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted>
I take it that in practice EFI implementations don't care about these?
Assuming so:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Otherwise, we might want to fix this first, so that we can easily
backport it.

Thanks,
Mark.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/efi-header.S | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-header.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-header.S
index 9b24ce130afb..515624bbfcd0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-header.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-header.S
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ coff_header:
 	.short	2					// nr_sections
 	.long	0 					// TimeDateStamp
 	.long	0					// PointerToSymbolTable
-	.long	1					// NumberOfSymbols
+	.long	0					// NumberOfSymbols
 	.short	section_table - optional_header		// SizeOfOptionalHeader
 	.short	0x206					// Characteristics.
 							// IMAGE_FILE_DEBUG_STRIPPED |
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ section_table:
 	.long	0					// PointerToLineNumbers
 	.short	0					// NumberOfRelocations
 	.short	0					// NumberOfLineNumbers
-	.long	0x42100040				// Characteristics (section flags)
+	.long	0x42000040				// Characteristics (section flags)
 
 
 	.ascii	".text"
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ section_table:
 	.long	0					// PointerToLineNumbers
 	.short	0					// NumberOfRelocations
 	.short	0					// NumberOfLineNumbers
-	.long	0xe0500020				// Characteristics
+	.long	0xe0000020				// Characteristics
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI
 	/*
-- 
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