[PATCH 1/7] arm: efi: remove forbidden values from the PE/COFF header

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Tue May 30 11:36:41 PDT 2017


Bring the PE/COFF header in line with the PE/COFF spec, by setting
NumberOfSymbols to 0, and removing the section alignment flags.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S
index 3f7d1b74c5e0..f9e91ba4d0b1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ coff_header:
 		.short	2			@ nr_sections
 		.long	0 			@ TimeDateStamp
 		.long	0			@ PointerToSymbolTable
-		.long	1			@ NumberOfSymbols
+		.long	0			@ NumberOfSymbols
 		.short	section_table - optional_header
 						@ SizeOfOptionalHeader
 		.short	0x306			@ Characteristics.
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ section_table:
 		.long	0			@ PointerToLineNumbers
 		.short	0			@ NumberOfRelocations
 		.short	0			@ NumberOfLineNumbers
-		.long	0x42100040		@ Characteristics
+		.long	0x42000040		@ Characteristics
 
 		.ascii	".text\0\0\0"
 		.long	_end - __efi_start	@ VirtualSize
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ section_table:
 		.long	0			@ PointerToLineNumbers
 		.short	0			@ NumberOfRelocations
 		.short	0			@ NumberOfLineNumbers
-		.long	0xe0500020		@ Characteristics
+		.long	0xe0000020		@ Characteristics
 
 		.align	9
 __efi_start:
-- 
2.9.3




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