Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] x86: head_64.S spring cleaning

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:52:32AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The patch moves it from .data to .bss inadvertently, and I am not
> convinced Tom's analysis is entirely accurate: we may simply have
> garbage in image_offset if we access it before .bss gets cleared.

That should not be too hard to find out: add an endless loop in asm in
the guest right after the first image_offset access:

1:
	jmp 1b

and then dump its value.

Or Tom might have an even better solution.

But looking at the code, BSS clearing happens later, at .Lrelocated and
the EFI stub comes before it. AFAICT.

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    Boris.

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