From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] arm64: efi: ensure that the PE/COFF header pointer appears at offset 0x3c
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 17:05:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170206170500.GE4190@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1486398275-3966-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 04:24:32PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Use a .org directive to ensure that the PE/COFF header pointer appears
> at offset 0x3c. Since the EFI header is now emitted using a macro, this
> helps ensure that the invocation of the macro remains at the correct
> offset.
>
> At the same time, collapse two adjacent #ifdef CONFIG_EFI blocks into one,
> and replace .word with .long (which are equivalent, but the former is
> never used elsewhere)
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
As with patch 3, I would very much prefer that we left these bits in
head.S.
Thanks,
Mark.
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/efi-header.S | 14 ++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-header.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-header.S
> index 8c8cd0a8192b..74a25c09a1b8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-header.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-header.S
> @@ -22,14 +22,16 @@
> .endm
>
> .macro __EFI_HEADER
> -#ifdef CONFIG_EFI
> - .long pe_header - _head // Offset to the PE header.
> +#ifndef CONFIG_EFI
> + .long 0 // reserved
> #else
> - .word 0 // reserved
> -#endif
> + /*
> + * PE/COFF requires the offset to the PE header
> + * to be stored at offset 0x3c into the file.
> + */
> + .org _head + 0x3c
> + .long pe_header - _head // Offset to the PE header.
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_EFI
> - .align 3
> pe_header:
> .ascii "PE"
> .short 0
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-06 16:24 [PATCH 0/7] arm64: efi: PE/COFF cleanup/hardening Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 1/7] include: pe.h: allow for use in assembly Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-06 16:33 ` Mark Rutland
2017-02-06 16:40 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 2/7] include: pe.h: add some missing definitions Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 3/7] arm64: efi: move EFI header and related data to a separate .S file Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-06 17:03 ` Mark Rutland
2017-02-06 17:07 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 4/7] arm64: efi: ensure that the PE/COFF header pointer appears at offset 0x3c Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-06 17:05 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2017-02-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 5/7] arm64: efi: remove pointless dummy .reloc section Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-06 17:06 ` Mark Rutland
2017-02-07 18:30 ` Peter Jones
2017-02-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 6/7] arm64: efi: replace open coded constants with symbolic ones Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-06 17:13 ` Mark Rutland
2017-02-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 7/7] arm64: efi: split Image code and data into separate PE/COFF sections Ard Biesheuvel
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