On 07/28/2014 06:21 AM, Michael Brown wrote: > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Just FYI: please enclose the email addresses in angle brackets even if there is no plain name. Otherwise you have a tendency to break various people's scripts in unpredictable ways. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
