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Commit:9f9223778e("efi/libstub/arm: Make efi_entry() an ordinary PE/COFF entrypoint") did some code refactoring to get rid of the EFI entry point assembler code, and in the process, it got rid of the assignment of image_addr to the value of _text. Instead, it switched to using the image_base field of the efi_loaded_image struct provided by UEFI, which should contain the same value. However, Michael reports that this is not the case: older GRUB builds corrupt this value in some way, and since we can easily switch back to referring to _text to discover this value, let's simply do that. While at it, fix another issue in commit9f9223778e, which may result in the unassigned image_addr to be misidentified as the preferred load offset of the kernel, which is unlikely but will cause a boot crash if it does occur. Finally, let's add a warning if the _text vs. image_base discrepancy is detected, so we can tell more easily how widespread this issue actually is. Reported-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
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