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Ard Biesheuvel c4421279b6 x86/boot: Increase section and file alignment to 4k/512 
[ Commit 3e3eabe26d upstream ]

Align x86 with other EFI architectures, and increase the section
alignment to the EFI page size (4k), so that firmware is able to honour
the section permission attributes and map code read-only and data
non-executable.

There are a number of requirements that have to be taken into account:
- the sign tools get cranky when there are gaps between sections in the
  file view of the image
- the virtual offset of each section must be aligned to the image's
  section alignment
- the file offset *and size* of each section must be aligned to the
  image's file alignment
- the image size must be aligned to the section alignment
- each section's virtual offset must be greater than or equal to the
  size of the headers.

In order to meet all these requirements, while avoiding the need for
lots of padding to accommodate the .compat section, the latter is placed
at an arbitrary offset towards the end of the image, but aligned to the
minimum file alignment (512 bytes). The space before the .text section
is therefore distributed between the PE header, the .setup section and
the .compat section, leaving no gaps in the file coverage, making the
signing tools happy.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-18-ardb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2024-04-27 17:07:06 +02:00
arch x86/boot: Increase section and file alignment to 4k/512 2024-04-27 17:07:06 +02:00
block block: prevent division by zero in blk_rq_stat_sum() 2024-04-13 13:05:12 +02:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: jitter - fix CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY help text 2024-03-26 18:20:50 -04:00
Documentation x86/bugs: Remove CONFIG_BHI_MITIGATION_AUTO and spectre_bhi=auto 2024-04-17 11:18:29 +02:00
drivers x86/efistub: Reinstate soft limit for initrd loading 2024-04-27 17:07:05 +02:00
fs btrfs: qgroup: convert PREALLOC to PERTRANS after record_root_in_trans 2024-04-17 11:18:26 +02:00
include SUNRPC: Fix rpcgss_context trace event acceptor field 2024-04-27 17:07:04 +02:00
init init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE 2024-04-03 15:19:47 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: Fix io_cqring_wait() not restoring sigmask on get_timespec64() failure 2024-04-27 17:07:04 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n 2024-04-17 11:18:27 +02:00
lib pci_iounmap(): Fix MMIO mapping leak 2024-04-03 15:19:25 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm x86/mm/pat: fix VM_PAT handling in COW mappings 2024-04-10 16:28:33 +02:00
net af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect() 2024-04-17 11:18:25 +02:00
rust rust: allocator: Prevent mis-aligned allocation 2023-08-11 12:08:18 +02:00
samples work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-23 09:12:28 +01:00
scripts gcc-plugins/stackleak: Avoid .head.text section 2024-04-13 13:05:23 +02:00
security landlock: Warn once if a Landlock action is requested while disabled 2024-04-03 15:19:32 +02:00
sound ASoC: soc-core.c: Skip dummy codec when adding platforms 2024-04-13 13:05:19 +02:00
tools selftests/ftrace: Limit length in subsystem-enable tests 2024-04-27 17:07:04 +02:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed 2024-04-03 15:19:25 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS trace: Relocate event helper files 2024-03-06 14:45:17 +00:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.87 2024-04-17 11:18:29 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.