Change our PE/COFF header to use the minimum file alignment of
512 bytes (0x200), as mandated by the PE/COFF spec v8.3
Also update the linker script so that the Image file itself is also a
round multiple of FileAlignment.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
Acked-by: Roy Franz <roy.fr...@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 8ae84d8c2a8c..5a76e3ab788c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ optional_header:
extra_header_fields:
.quad 0 // ImageBase
.long 0x1000 // SectionAlignment
- .long 0x8 // FileAlignment
+ .long PECOFF_FILE_ALIGNMENT // FileAlignment
.short 0 // MajorOperatingSystemVersion
.short 0 // MinorOperatingSystemVersion
.short 0 // MajorImageVersion
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index edf8715ba39b..4596f46d0244 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -32,6 +32,22 @@ jiffies = jiffies_64;
*(.hyp.text) \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__hyp_text_end) = .;
+/*
+ * The size of the PE/COFF section that covers the kernel image, which
+ * runs from stext to _edata, must be a round multiple of the PE/COFF
+ * FileAlignment, which we set to its minimum value of 0x200. 'stext'
+ * itself is 4 KB aligned, so padding out _edata to a 0x200 aligned
+ * boundary should be sufficient.
+ */
+PECOFF_FILE_ALIGNMENT = 0x200;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_EFI
+#define PECOFF_EDATA_PADDING \
+ .pecoff_edata_padding : { BYTE(0); . = ALIGN(PECOFF_FILE_ALIGNMENT); }
+#else
+#define PECOFF_EDATA_PADDING
+#endif
+
SECTIONS
{
/*
@@ -103,6 +119,7 @@ SECTIONS
_data = .;
_sdata = .;
RW_DATA_SECTION(64, PAGE_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE)
+ PECOFF_EDATA_PADDING
_edata = .;
BSS_SECTION(0, 0, 0)
--
1.8.3.2
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