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The so-called EFI handover protocol is value-add from the distros that permits a loader to simply copy a PE kernel image into memory and call an alternative entrypoint that is described by an embedded boot_params structure. Most implementations of this protocol do not bother to check the PE header for minimum alignment, section placement, etc, and therefore also don't clear the image's BSS, or even allocate enough memory for it. Allocating more memory on the fly is rather difficult, but at least clear the BSS region explicitly when entering in this manner, so that the EFI stub code does not get confused by global variables that were not zero-initialized correctly. When booting in mixed mode, this BSS clearing must occur before any global state is created, so clear it in the 32-bit asm entry point. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807162720.545787-7-ardb@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.