NULL pointer detection is done by making use of paging mechanism of CPU.
During page table setup, if enabled, the first 4-K page (0-4095) will be
marked as NOT PRESENT. Any code which unintentionally access memory between
0-4095 will trigger a Page Fault exception which warns users that there's
potential illegal code in BIOS.
This also means that legacy code which has to access memory between 0-4095
should be cautious to temporarily disable this feature before the access
and re-enable it afterwards; or disalbe this feature at all.
Cc: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com>
Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Cc: Ayellet Wolman <ayellet.wolman@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Ayellet Wolman <ayellet.wolman@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang <jian.j.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
This feature is added for UEFI spec that says
"Stack may be marked as non-executable in identity mapped page tables".
A PCD PcdSetNxForStack is added to turn on/off this feature, and it is
FALSE by default.
Cc: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Star Zeng <star.zeng@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yao, Jiewen" <Jiewen.yao@intel.com>
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2. DxeMain will get Vector Handoff Table GUIDed HOB to install configuration table if it has.
3. Updated CPU Exception Handler Library to provide 3 new APIs to replace original one API and updated NULL instance accordingly.
4. Updated DxeMain/CapsuleX64/BootSriptExectorDxe to use the new API in CPU Exception Handler Lib.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Fan <jeff.fan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@14884 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524
This looks amlost like a bug in VS2008, please verify that the warning is fixed as I don't ahve a copy of VS2008.
signed-off-by: andrewfish
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