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


  • To: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 10:18:59 +0200
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On 08.04.2025 09:56, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 04:04:18PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 01.04.2025 15:26, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>> nxcompat should be enabled by default I think?  I can of course make
>>> it explicit by adding to the PE link command line.
>>
>> --nxcompat wasn't the default originally, then was made the default for MinGW
>> (and by mistake for everything else as well), then it being the default was
>> undone for Cygwin. I've meanwhile submitted a patch to undo it for everything
>> that isn't MinGW [1]. I simply don't think the linker is in the position to
>> declare that every binary is NX-compatible. It's the programmers who have to
>> determine that. With the flag not being honored everywhere one also can't
>> simply test an EFI binary on a couple of hosts, at least as long as the EFI
>> implementation there is a black box.
> 
> I think I looked at this reference:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Options.html
> 
> When saying that nxcompat was enabled by default:
> 
> --nxcompat
> --disable-nxcompat The image is compatible with the Data Execution
> Prevention. This feature was introduced with MS Windows XP SP2 for
> i386 PE targets. The option is enabled by default.

Oh, I shall correct that, too, then. Thanks for pointing out.

Jan



 


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