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Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] x86/EFI: prevent write-execute sections


  • To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:13:52 +0200
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On 01.04.2025 15:08, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The following series aim to remove the presence of any write and execute
> section in the PE Xen image.  This is required to support the NX
> compatible flag in the PE header.   By the end of the series the
> resulting PE image has no relocations that apply to text sections, as
> text sections are strictly mapped read-execute only.  Xen itself
> attempting to apply relocations to text would result in page-faults.
> 
> A smoke test is added to Gitlab to ensure the PE NX support doesn't
> regress.
> 
> Only patches 5 and 10 are carried over from v1, the rest are new.
> 
> Thanks, Roger.
> 
> Roger Pau Monne (11):
>   automation/dockers: add to README how to rebuild all containers
>   x86/mkreloc: fix obtaining PE image base address
>   x86/mkreloc: use the string table to get names
>   x86/mkreloc: print the linear address of relocations to read-only
>     sections
>   xen: remove -N from the linker command line
>   x86/efi: discard .text.header for PE binary
>   x86/efi: discard multiboot related entry code for PE binary
>   x86/boot: place trampoline code in a non-execute section
>   x86/efi: avoid a relocation in efi_arch_post_exit_boot()
>   x86/efi: do not merge all .init sections
>   automation/x86: add a xen.efi test with a strict NX OVMF build
> 
>  automation/build/README.md                   |  7 ++
>  automation/build/fedora/41-x86_64.dockerfile |  5 ++
>  automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml               |  9 +++
>  automation/scripts/qemu-smoke-x86-64-efi.sh  | 22 +++++-
>  xen/arch/arm/Makefile                        |  6 +-
>  xen/arch/ppc/Makefile                        |  6 +-
>  xen/arch/riscv/Makefile                      |  6 +-
>  xen/arch/x86/Makefile                        | 12 +--
>  xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S                     |  3 +-
>  xen/arch/x86/efi/efi-boot.h                  |  7 +-
>  xen/arch/x86/efi/mkreloc.c                   | 77 +++++++++++++++++---
>  xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S                       | 20 +++--
>  12 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

>From titles and diffstat (all Makefile changes being covered by patch 05)
it looks like you still don't add passing --nxcompat to the linker. Is
that intentionally left out here?

Jan



 


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