On arm64, the stub only moves the kernel image around in memory if needed, which is typically only for KASLR, given that relocatable kernels (which is the default) can run from any 64k aligned address, which is also the minimum alignment communicated to EFI via the PE/COFF header.
Unfortunately, some loaders appear to ignore this header, and load the kernel at some arbitrary offset in memory. We can deal with this, but let's check for this condition anyway, so non-compliant code can be spotted and fixed.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+ Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org --- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c index 010564f8bbc4..2363fee9211c 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c @@ -119,6 +119,10 @@ efi_status_t handle_kernel_image(unsigned long *image_addr, if (image->image_base != _text) efi_err("FIRMWARE BUG: efi_loaded_image_t::image_base has bogus value\n");
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED((u64)_text, EFI_KIMG_ALIGN)) + efi_err("FIRMWARE BUG: kernel image not aligned on %ldk boundary\n", + EFI_KIMG_ALIGN >> 10); + kernel_size = _edata - _text; kernel_memsize = kernel_size + (_end - _edata); *reserve_size = kernel_memsize;