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Subject[PATCH 3/5] efi/x86: Remove __efistub_global annotation
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Instead of using __efistub_global to force variables into the .data
section, leave them in the .bss but pull the EFI stub's .bss section
into .data in the linker script for the compressed kernel.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 12 ++++++++++--
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h | 4 ----
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index 508cfa6828c5..0dc5c2b9614b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ SECTIONS
_data = . ;
*(.data)
*(.data.*)
+ *(.bss.efistub)
_edata = . ;
}
. = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
index e5e76677f2da..0bb2916eb12b 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ CFLAGS_arm64-stub.o := -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
# a verification pass to see if any absolute relocations exist in any of the
# object files.
#
-extra-$(CONFIG_EFI_ARMSTUB) := $(lib-y)
-lib-$(CONFIG_EFI_ARMSTUB) := $(patsubst %.o,%.stub.o,$(lib-y))
+extra-y := $(lib-y)
+lib-y := $(patsubst %.o,%.stub.o,$(lib-y))

STUBCOPY_FLAGS-$(CONFIG_ARM64) += --prefix-alloc-sections=.init \
--prefix-symbols=__efistub_
@@ -89,6 +89,14 @@ STUBCOPY_FLAGS-$(CONFIG_ARM) += --rename-section .data=.data.efistub \
--rename-section .bss=.bss.efistub,load,alloc
STUBCOPY_RELOC-$(CONFIG_ARM) := R_ARM_ABS

+#
+# 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
+
$(obj)/%.stub.o: $(obj)/%.o FORCE
$(call if_changed,stubcopy)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
index a92d42ffd9f7..49651e20bb9f 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
@@ -25,11 +25,7 @@
#define EFI_ALLOC_ALIGN EFI_PAGE_SIZE
#endif

-#if defined(CONFIG_X86)
-#define __efistub_global __section(.data)
-#else
#define __efistub_global
-#endif

extern bool __pure nochunk(void);
extern bool __pure nokaslr(void);
--
2.24.1
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