efi: Useless relocation section in PE file
authorSylvain Gault <sylvain.gault@gmail.com>
Mon, 3 Feb 2014 04:43:06 +0000 (05:43 +0100)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:31:44 +0000 (16:31 -0800)
There is no need to have a relocation section that nothing points at.
The image is still seen as relocatable as long as the Characteristics of
the FileHeader do not say otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Sylvain Gault <sylvain.gault@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
efi/wrapper.c

index 2b96665..1988124 100644 (file)
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static void write_header(FILE *f, __uint32_t entry, size_t data_size,
 {
        struct optional_hdr o_hdr;
        struct optional_hdr_pe32p o_hdr_pe32p;
-       struct section t_sec, r_sec;
+       struct section t_sec;
        struct extra_hdr e_hdr;
        struct extra_hdr_pe32p e_hdr_pe32p;
        struct coff_hdr c_hdr;
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static void write_header(FILE *f, __uint32_t entry, size_t data_size,
        fwrite(&hdr, sizeof(hdr), 1, f);
 
        memset(&c_hdr, 0, sizeof(c_hdr));
-       c_hdr.nr_sections = 2;
+       c_hdr.nr_sections = 1;
        c_hdr.nr_syms = 1;
        if (class == ELFCLASS32) {
                c_hdr.arch = IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_I386;
@@ -142,22 +142,6 @@ static void write_header(FILE *f, __uint32_t entry, size_t data_size,
        fwrite(&t_sec, sizeof(t_sec), 1, f);
 
        /*
-        * Write our empty reloc section.
-        */
-       memset(&r_sec, 0, sizeof(r_sec));
-       strcpy((char *)r_sec.name, ".reloc");
-       r_sec.virtual_sz = 0;
-       /* /!\ Attention! Some UEFI implementations require a valid virtual
-        * address despite the virtual_sz = 0. */
-       r_sec.virtual_address = t_sec.virtual_address;
-       r_sec.raw_data_sz = r_sec.virtual_sz;
-       r_sec.raw_data = r_sec.virtual_address;
-       r_sec.characteristics = IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA |
-               IMAGE_SCN_ALIGN_1BYTES | IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE |
-               IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ;
-       fwrite(&r_sec, sizeof(r_sec), 1, f);
-
-       /*
         * Add some padding to align the ELF as needed
         */
        if (ftell(f) > t_sec.virtual_address) {