On 07/28/2014 06:21 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
> commit c7fb93ec51d462ec3540a729ba446663c26a0505 upstream
>
> The PE/COFF headers currently describe only the initialised-data
> portions of the image, and result in no space being allocated for the
> uninitialised-data portions. Consequently, the EFI boot stub will end
> up overwriting unexpected areas of memory, with unpredictable results.
>
> Fix by including a .bss section in the PE/COFF headers (functionally
> equivalent to the init_size field in the bzImage header).
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
Just FYI: please enclose the email addresses in angle brackets even if
there is no plain name. Otherwise you have a tendency to break various
people's scripts in unpredictable ways.
-hpa
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