linux/arch
Ard Biesheuvel effc7b027a arm64: efi: remove pointless dummy .reloc section
The kernel's EFI PE/COFF header contains a dummy .reloc section, and
an explanatory comment that claims that this is required for the EFI
application loader to accept the Image as a relocatable image (i.e.,
one that can be loaded at any offset and fixed up in place)

This was inherited from the x86 implementation, which has elaborate host
tooling to mangle the PE/COFF header post-link time, and which populates
the .reloc section with a single dummy base relocation. On ARM, no such
tooling exists, and the .reloc section remains empty, and is never even
exposed via the BaseRelocationTable directory entry, which is where the
PE/COFF loader looks for it.

The PE/COFF spec is unclear about relocatable images that do not require
any fixups, but the EDK2 implementation, which is the de facto reference
for PE/COFF in the UEFI space, clearly does not care, and explicitly
mentions (in a comment) that relocatable images with no base relocations
are perfectly fine, as long as they don't have the RELOCS_STRIPPED
attribute set (which is not the case for our PE/COFF image)

So simply remove the .reloc section altogether.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2017-04-04 17:50:41 +01:00
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alpha sched/headers: Move task->mm handling methods to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-03 01:43:28 +01:00
arc arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2017-03-17 12:14:49 -07:00
arm64 arm64: efi: remove pointless dummy .reloc section 2017-04-04 17:50:41 +01:00
avr32 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
blackfin sched/headers: Move task->mm handling methods to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-03 01:43:28 +01:00
c6x sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:36 +01:00
cris Merge branch 'prep-for-5level' 2017-03-10 08:59:07 -08:00
frv arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
h8300 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
hexagon arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
ia64 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
m32r sched/headers: Move task->mm handling methods to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-03 01:43:28 +01:00
m68k sched/headers: Prepare to remove the <linux/mm_types.h> dependency from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
metag arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
microblaze arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mips arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mn10300 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
nios2 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
openrisc openrisc: Export symbols needed by modules 2017-03-16 00:12:57 +09:00
parisc parisc: Fix system shutdown halt 2017-03-18 17:27:45 +01:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 4.11 #5 2017-03-19 18:49:28 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2017-03-12 14:22:25 -07:00
score Fixup for arch/score after extable.h introduction 2017-03-11 14:16:50 -08:00
sh Merge branch 'prep-for-5level' 2017-03-10 08:59:07 -08:00
sparc arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
tile arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
um arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
unicore32 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
x86 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-17 14:05:03 -07:00
xtensa arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
.gitignore
Kconfig scripts/spelling.txt: add "an user" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00