[PATCH v3] arm64/efi: efistub: jump to 'stext' directly, not through the header

[Ard Biesheuvel]

After the EFI stub has done its business, it jumps into the kernel by
branching to offset #0 of the loaded Image, which is where it expects
to find the header containing a 'branch to stext' instruction.

However, the UEFI spec 2.1.1 states the following regarding PE/COFF
image loading:
"A UEFI image is loaded into memory through the LoadImage() Boot
Service. This service loads an image with a PE32+ format into memory.
This PE32+ loader is required to load all sections of the PE32+ image
into memory."

In other words, it is /not/ required to load parts of the image that are
not covered by a PE/COFF section, so it may not have loaded the header
at the expected offset, as it is not covered by any PE/COFF section.

So instead, jump to 'stext' directly, which is at the base of the
PE/COFF .text section, by supplying a symbol 'stext_offset' to
efi-entry.o which contains the relative offset of stext into the Image.
Also replace other open coded calculations of the same value with a
reference to 'stext_offset'

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
Changes since v2:
- rebased onto 3.17+
- added spec reference to commit message

Changes since v1:
- drop :lo12: relocation against stext_offset in favor of using a literal
  '=stext_offset' which is safer

 arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S |  3 ++-
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S      | 10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S
index 619b1dd7bcde..a0016d3a17da 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-entry.S
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ ENTRY(efi_stub_entry)
 	 */
 	mov	x20, x0		// DTB address
 	ldr	x0, [sp, #16]	// relocated _text address
-	mov	x21, x0
+	ldr	x21, =stext_offset
+	add	x21, x0, x21
 
 	/*
 	 * Flush dcache covering current runtime addresses
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 0a6e4f924df8..8c06c9d269d2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ efi_head:
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_EFI
+	.globl	stext_offset
+	.set	stext_offset, stext - efi_head
 	.align 3
 pe_header:
 	.ascii	"PE"
@@ -155,7 +157,7 @@ optional_header:
 	.long	0				// SizeOfInitializedData
 	.long	0				// SizeOfUninitializedData
 	.long	efi_stub_entry - efi_head	// AddressOfEntryPoint
-	.long	stext - efi_head		// BaseOfCode
+	.long	stext_offset			// BaseOfCode
 
 extra_header_fields:
 	.quad	0				// ImageBase
@@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ extra_header_fields:
 	.long	_end - efi_head			// SizeOfImage
 
 	// Everything before the kernel image is considered part of the header
-	.long	stext - efi_head		// SizeOfHeaders
+	.long	stext_offset			// SizeOfHeaders
 	.long	0				// CheckSum
 	.short	0xa				// Subsystem (EFI application)
 	.short	0				// DllCharacteristics
@@ -217,9 +219,9 @@ section_table:
 	.byte	0
 	.byte	0        		// end of 0 padding of section name
 	.long	_end - stext		// VirtualSize
-	.long	stext - efi_head	// VirtualAddress
+	.long	stext_offset		// VirtualAddress
 	.long	_edata - stext		// SizeOfRawData
-	.long	stext - efi_head	// PointerToRawData
+	.long	stext_offset		// PointerToRawData
 
 	.long	0		// PointerToRelocations (0 for executables)
 	.long	0		// PointerToLineNumbers (0 for executables)
-- 
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