This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/efi: Drop alignment flags from PE section headers
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-efi-drop-alignment-flags-from-pe-section-headers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From stable+bounces-40240-greg=kroah.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fri Apr 19 10:11:40 2024
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+git@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:11:10 +0200
Subject: x86/efi: Drop alignment flags from PE section headers
To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <20240419081105.3817596-29-ardb+git@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Commit bfab35f552ab3dd6d017165bf9de1d1d20f198cc upstream ]
The section header flags for alignment are documented in the PE/COFF
spec as being applicable to PE object files only, not to PE executables
such as the Linux bzImage, so let's drop them from the PE header.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-20-ardb@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/boot/header.S | 12 ++++--------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
@@ -208,8 +208,7 @@ section_table:
.word 0 # NumberOfLineNumbers
.long IMAGE_SCN_CNT_CODE | \
IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | \
- IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE | \
- IMAGE_SCN_ALIGN_16BYTES # Characteristics
+ IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE # Characteristics
#
# The EFI application loader requires a relocation section
@@ -229,8 +228,7 @@ section_table:
.word 0 # NumberOfLineNumbers
.long IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA | \
IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | \
- IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE | \
- IMAGE_SCN_ALIGN_1BYTES # Characteristics
+ IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE # Characteristics
#ifdef CONFIG_EFI_MIXED
#
@@ -248,8 +246,7 @@ section_table:
.word 0 # NumberOfLineNumbers
.long IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA | \
IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | \
- IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE | \
- IMAGE_SCN_ALIGN_1BYTES # Characteristics
+ IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE # Characteristics
#endif
#
@@ -270,8 +267,7 @@ section_table:
.word 0 # NumberOfLineNumbers
.long IMAGE_SCN_CNT_CODE | \
IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | \
- IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE | \
- IMAGE_SCN_ALIGN_16BYTES # Characteristics
+ IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE # Characteristics
.set section_count, (. - section_table) / 40
#endif /* CONFIG_EFI_STUB */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kroah.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/x86-boot-drop-pe-coff-.reloc-section.patch
queue-6.1/x86-sme-move-early-sme-kernel-encryption-handling-into-.head.text.patch
queue-6.1/x86-boot-omit-compression-buffer-from-pe-coff-image-memory-footprint.patch
queue-6.1/x86-mm-remove-p-d_page_mask-and-p-d_page_size-macros.patch
queue-6.1/x86-efi-drop-alignment-flags-from-pe-section-headers.patch
queue-6.1/x86-boot-increase-section-and-file-alignment-to-4k-512.patch
queue-6.1/x86-head-64-add-missing-__head-annotation-to-startup_64_load_idt.patch
queue-6.1/x86-boot-define-setup-size-in-linker-script.patch
queue-6.1/x86-boot-split-off-pe-coff-.data-section.patch
queue-6.1/x86-boot-derive-file-size-from-_edata-symbol.patch
queue-6.1/x86-boot-construct-pe-coff-.text-section-from-assembler.patch
queue-6.1/x86-boot-grab-kernel_info-offset-from-zoffset-header-directly.patch
queue-6.1/x86-sev-move-early-startup-code-into-.head.text-section.patch
queue-6.1/x86-boot-remove-the-bugger-off-message.patch
queue-6.1/x86-head-64-move-the-__head-definition-to-asm-init.h.patch
queue-6.1/x86-boot-drop-references-to-startup_64.patch
queue-6.1/x86-efistub-use-1-1-file-memory-mapping-for-pe-coff-.compat-section.patch
queue-6.1/x86-efi-drop-efi-stub-.bss-from-.data-section.patch
queue-6.1/x86-efi-disregard-setup-header-of-loaded-image.patch
queue-6.1/x86-efistub-remap-kernel-text-read-only-before-dropping-nx-attribute.patch
queue-6.1/x86-efistub-reinstate-soft-limit-for-initrd-loading.patch
queue-6.1/x86-boot-set-efi-handover-offset-directly-in-header-asm.patch
queue-6.1/x86-boot-drop-redundant-code-setting-the-root-device.patch
