6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org
commit 5f51c5d0e905608ba7be126737f7c84a793ae1aa upstream.
Now that the EFI stub always zero inits its BSS section upon entry, there is no longer a need to place the BSS symbols carried by the stub into the .data section.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912090051.4014114-18-ardb@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 - drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 7 ------- 2 files changed, 8 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ SECTIONS _data = . ; *(.data) *(.data.*) - *(.bss.efistub) _edata = . ; } . = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES); --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile @@ -108,13 +108,6 @@ lib-y := $(patsubst %.o,%.stub.o,$(li # https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46480 STUBCOPY_FLAGS-y += --remove-section=.note.gnu.property
-# -# For x86, bootloaders like systemd-boot or grub-efi do not zero-initialize the -# .bss section, so the .bss section of the EFI stub needs to be included in the -# .data section of the compressed kernel to ensure initialization. Rename the -# .bss section here so it's easy to pick out in the linker script. -# -STUBCOPY_FLAGS-$(CONFIG_X86) += --rename-section .bss=.bss.efistub,load,alloc STUBCOPY_RELOC-$(CONFIG_X86_32) := R_386_32 STUBCOPY_RELOC-$(CONFIG_X86_64) := R_X86_64_64