Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] x86: head_64.S spring cleaning

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Nov 22 2022 - 17:20:41 EST


On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 03:49:29PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> I bisected it to:
>
> 99b7f4b23d9f ("x86/boot/compressed, efi: Merge multiple definitions of image_offset into one")
>
> And doing the following fixed it:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
> index cb5f0befee57..a0bfd31358ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
> const efi_system_table_t *efi_system_table;
> const efi_dxe_services_table_t *efi_dxe_table;
> -u32 image_offset;
> +u32 image_offset __section(".data");
> static efi_loaded_image_t *image = NULL;
> static efi_status_t
>
> I assume it has to do with being in .data vs .bss and not being explicitly
> cleared with the encryption bit set. With the change to put image_offset in
> the .data section, it is read as zero, where as when it was in the .bss
> section it was reading "ciphertext".

Thank you both. I'll refresh the set and run it here tomorrow too, to
make sure it boots here too.

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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