[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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