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| author | Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> | 2023-09-15 17:16:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2023-09-17 19:48:43 +0200 |
| commit | fa5750521e0a4efbc1af05223da9c4bbd6c21c83 (patch) | |
| tree | 737a235e829e26cf3b9441f5784202a13b69d112 /arch/x86/boot/header.S | |
| parent | efa089e63b56bdc5eca754b995cb039dd7a5457e (diff) | |
x86/boot: Drop PE/COFF .reloc section
Ancient buggy EFI loaders may have required a .reloc section to be
present at some point in time, but this has not been true for a long
time so the .reloc section can just be dropped.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-16-ardb@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot/header.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/boot/header.S | 20 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S index 2b07bc596c39..9e9641e220a7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S @@ -155,26 +155,6 @@ section_table: IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | \ IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE # Characteristics - # - # The EFI application loader requires a relocation section - # because EFI applications must be relocatable. The .reloc - # offset & size fields are filled in by build.c. - # - .ascii ".reloc" - .byte 0 - .byte 0 - .long 0 - .long 0 - .long 0 # SizeOfRawData - .long 0 # PointerToRawData - .long 0 # PointerToRelocations - .long 0 # PointerToLineNumbers - .word 0 # NumberOfRelocations - .word 0 # NumberOfLineNumbers - .long IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA | \ - IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ | \ - IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE # Characteristics - #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_MIXED # # The offset & size fields are filled in by build.c. |