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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:52:57 +0000 (12:52 -0700)
commit5d608f59360e7622c2640853d8b70b77242c1a93
tree98e7b49d0854cbdba2140d8121b0cf3aa2c52886
parentb7fd0d5939ff4b94881ab71ebebf790deef49ddd
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/boot/header.S
arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c