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From: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>,
	linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] linux/arm: fix ARM Linux header layout
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 12:31:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201104123105.GU1664@vanye> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXHfqcDpkPekm7jjgxi5KGCWnBTygrTgBoK2A74MZ6MvkQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 13:19:47 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 13:11, Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 14:49:34 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > The hdr_offset member of the ARM Linux image header appears at
> > > offset 0x3c, matching the PE/COFF spec's placement of the COFF
> > > header offset in the MS-DOS header. We're currently off by four,
> > > so fix that.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>
> > > ---
> > >  include/grub/arm/linux.h | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/grub/arm/linux.h b/include/grub/arm/linux.h
> > > index 2e98a6689696..bcd5a7eb186e 100644
> > > --- a/include/grub/arm/linux.h
> > > +++ b/include/grub/arm/linux.h
> > > @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ struct linux_arm_kernel_header {
> > >    grub_uint32_t magic;
> > >    grub_uint32_t start; /* _start */
> > >    grub_uint32_t end;   /* _edata */
> > > -  grub_uint32_t reserved2[4];
> > > +  grub_uint32_t reserved2[3];
> > >    grub_uint32_t hdr_offset;
> >
> > How did this ever work?
> >
> 
> By ignoring the value of hdr_offset entirely everywhere else

Oh, right - we only bother checking magic, doh!

/
    Leif

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-04 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-25 13:49 [PATCH v2 0/8] linux: implement LoadFile2 initrd loading Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-25 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] linux/arm: fix ARM Linux header layout Ard Biesheuvel
2020-11-04 12:11   ` Leif Lindholm
2020-11-04 12:19     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-11-04 12:31       ` Leif Lindholm [this message]
2021-03-11 16:18   ` Daniel Kiper
2020-10-25 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] loader/linux: permit NULL argument for argv[] in grub_initrd_load() Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-25 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] efi: move MS-DOS stub out of generic PE header definition Ard Biesheuvel
2021-04-08 18:44   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-04-09  6:10     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-04-09  6:29       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-10-25 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] linux/arm: unify ARM/arm64 vs Xen PE/COFF header handling Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-25 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] linux/arm: account for COFF headers appearing at unexpected offsets Ard Biesheuvel
2021-04-08 18:56   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-04-09  6:12     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-04-09  6:40       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2021-04-09  6:58         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-25 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] efi: add definition of LoadFile2 protocol Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-25 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] efi: implement LoadFile2 initrd loading protocol for Linux Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-26 21:37   ` Atish Patra
2020-10-26 22:00     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-25 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] linux: ignore FDT unless we need to modify it Ard Biesheuvel

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