The .rodata ELF section contains constant non-executable data that
should never be modified by the program itself. Since the risk of
inadvertent modification is typically higher than the risk of
inadvertent execution, it makes sense to put this data in the
R-X .text section rather than in the RW- .data section.
So move it there.
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Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Tested-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
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The NOP padding in the GCC linker scripts ensures that all empty
regions in the ELF binary are filled with x86 NOP instructions.
There is no upside to doing this: if the CPU ends up executing these
instructions, we have little hope of resuming normal execution of the
program anyway. And having NOP slides in memory only makes it easier
for attackers to launch exploits. So remove them.
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Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Tested-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
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Instead of relying on the builtin linker script of GNU ld, which
may vary based on binutils version (which is not tightly coupled to
the GCC version) and linker command line options, introduce a linker
script for AArch64 to be used by all GCC/binutils versions.
The script is laid out such that two ELF sections .text and .data are
created that map onto the PE/COFF with the same names. By aligning
.data to the minimum alignment of .text, and by not adding any
additional padding -which is what LD's builtin linker script does- the
relative offset between .text and .data is retained after the PE/COFF
conversion. This should prevent problems with debuggers and other
tooling that are ELF based.
Also provided is an overlay linker script that increases the alignment
of .text and .data to 64 KB. This is intended for DXE_RUNTIME_DRIVER
modules, to make them compatible with the newly introduced
Properties Table feature.
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Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Olivier Martin <Olivier.Martin@arm.com>
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Instead of relying on the builtin linker script of GNU ld, which
may vary based on binutils version (which is not tightly coupled to
the GCC version) and linker command line options, introduce a linker
script for AArch64 to be used by all GCC/binutils versions.
The script is laid out such that two ELF sections .text and .data are
created that map onto the PE/COFF with the same names. By aligning
.data to the minimum alignment of .text, and by not adding any
additional padding -which is what LD's builtin linker script does- the
relative offset between .text and .data is retained after the PE/COFF
conversion. This should prevent problems with debuggers and other
tooling that are ELF based.
Also provided is an overlay linker script that increases the alignment
of .text and .data to 64 KB. This is intended for DXE_RUNTIME_DRIVER
modules, to make them compatible with the newly introduced
Properties Table feature.
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Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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2. Generate correct HII data offset.
3. Fixed a bug for incorrect PCD value used in conditional statement.
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Signed-off-by: Yingke Liu <yingke.d.liu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
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This script is intended to assist with MASM to NASM syntax
conversions.
The output should be manually inspected and adjusted as needed, since
this script does not provide a perfect conversion.
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Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yingke D Liu <yingke.d.liu@intel.com>
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This changes includes new scripts that breaks out some of the functionality in edksetup.bat and eliminates calling the toolsetup.bat file in BaseTools directory.
Edk2Setup.bat is to be used for testing. If no bugs are reported by the end of September, 2014, the file will be renamed to edksetup.bat.
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Signed-off-by: lhauch <larry.hauch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>
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GCC 4.9 may use 64-byte (0x40) alignment for data sections.
Therefore we use a different link script for GCC 4.9. The only
difference from the gcc4.4-ld-script is the alignment for data
sections.
When using the GCC48 toolchain with GCC 4.9, this error would be
encountered by GenFw:
> GenFw: ERROR 3000: Invalid
> Unsupported section alignment.
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Reviewed-by: Yingke Liu <yingke.d.liu@intel.com>
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Ard Biesheuvel
Jordan Justen
Yingke Liu
lhauch
Liming Gao
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