Folks, please pull the following fix. It's something that Peter and I
talked about a while ago, and it seems that people are actually hitting
issues without this patch and have been since v3.13.
The following changes since commit c7fb93ec51d462ec3540a729ba446663c26a0505:
x86/efi: Include a .bss section within the PE/COFF headers (2014-07-10 14:21:39 +0100)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-urgent
for you to fetch changes up to 7b2a583afb4ab894f78bc0f8bd136e96b6499a7e:
x86/efi: Enforce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for EFI boot stub (2014-08-05 22:01:04 +0100)
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* Enforce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for the x86 EFI boot stub, otherwise
it's possible to overwrite random pieces of unallocated memory during
kernel decompression, leading to machine resets.
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Matt Fleming (1):
x86/efi: Enforce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for EFI boot stub
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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