[PATCH 1/3] efi/libstub: zboot: Mark zboot EFI application as NX compatible
Ard Biesheuvel
ardb at kernel.org
Fri Mar 10 04:50:24 PST 2023
Now that the zboot loader will invoke the EFI memory attributes protocol
to remap the decompressed code and rodata as read-only/executable, we
can set the PE/COFF header flag that indicates to the firmware that the
application does not rely on writable memory being executable at the
same time.
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v6.2+
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot-header.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot-header.S b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot-header.S
index ec4525d40e0cf6d6..445cb646eaaaf1c6 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot-header.S
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot-header.S
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ __efistub_efi_zboot_header:
.long .Lefi_header_end - .Ldoshdr
.long 0
.short IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_EFI_APPLICATION
- .short 0
+ .short IMAGE_DLL_CHARACTERISTICS_NX_COMPAT
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
.quad 0, 0, 0, 0
#else
--
2.39.2
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