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riscv: efi: Set NX compat flag in PE/COFF header
authorHeinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:02:33 +0000 (16:02 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 8 Nov 2024 15:25:55 +0000 (16:25 +0100)
commitddb04c81d129addd62780df309f04bbddb387f60
tree6e438650961b257602fc55c086a5222c7986e820
parent1c54b0b0d72c75e8dfb69643d75bc1deda2ff44e
riscv: efi: Set NX compat flag in PE/COFF header

[ Upstream commit d41373a4b910961df5a5e3527d7bde6ad45ca438 ]

The IMAGE_DLLCHARACTERISTICS_NX_COMPAT informs the firmware that the
EFI binary does not rely on pages that are both executable and
writable.

The flag is used by some distro versions of GRUB to decide if the EFI
binary may be executed.

As the Linux kernel neither has RWX sections nor needs RWX pages for
relocation we should set the flag.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Renner Berthing <emil.renner.berthing@canonical.com>
Fixes: cb7d2dd5612a ("RISC-V: Add PE/COFF header for EFI stub")
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240929140233.211800-1-heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/riscv/kernel/efi-header.S