The NOP padding in the GCC linker scripts ensures that all empty
regions in the ELF binary are filled with x86 NOP instructions.
There is no upside to doing this: if the CPU ends up executing these
instructions, we have little hope of resuming normal execution of the
program anyway. And having NOP slides in memory only makes it easier
for attackers to launch exploits. So remove them.
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Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Tested-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
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GCC 4.9 may use 64-byte (0x40) alignment for data sections.
Therefore we use a different link script for GCC 4.9. The only
difference from the gcc4.4-ld-script is the alignment for data
sections.
When using the GCC48 toolchain with GCC 4.9, this error would be
encountered by GenFw:
> GenFw: ERROR 3000: Invalid
> Unsupported section alignment.
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yingke Liu <yingke.d.liu@intel.com>
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