[PATCH 1/1] efi_loader: make .data section of *_efi.so files RW

Heinrich Schuchardt heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com
Wed Jan 4 23:43:08 CET 2023


When building with binutils 2.39 warnings

    *_efi.so has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions

occur.

Use SHF_WRITE | SHF_ALLOC as section flags for the .data section.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/lib/elf_aarch64_efi.lds | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/elf_aarch64_efi.lds b/arch/arm/lib/elf_aarch64_efi.lds
index ffc6f6e604..3e3da47d6a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/elf_aarch64_efi.lds
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/elf_aarch64_efi.lds
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 
 OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf64-littleaarch64", "elf64-littleaarch64", "elf64-littleaarch64")
 OUTPUT_ARCH(aarch64)
+
+PHDRS
+{
+	data PT_LOAD FLAGS(3); /* SHF_WRITE | SHF_ALLOC */
+}
+
 ENTRY(_start)
 SECTIONS
 {
@@ -49,7 +55,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		. = ALIGN(512);
 		_bss_end = .;
 		_edata = .;
-	}
+	} :data
 	_data_size = _edata - _data;
 	.rela.dyn : { *(.rela.dyn) }
 	.rela.plt : { *(.rela.plt) }
-- 
2.37.2



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