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loader/arm64/linux: Remove magic number header field check

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The "ARM\x64" magic number in the file header identifies an image as one
that implements the bare metal boot protocol, allowing the loader to
simply move the file to a suitably aligned address in memory, with
sufficient headroom for the trailing .bss segment (the required memory
size is described in the header as well).

Note of this matters for GRUB, as it only supports EFI boot. EFI does
not care about this magic number, and nor should GRUB: this prevents us
from booting other PE linux images, such as the generic EFI zboot
decompressor, which is a pure PE/COFF image, and does not implement the
bare metal boot protocol.

So drop the magic number check.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
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Ard Biesheuvel 2022-08-11 16:51:57 +02:00 committed by Daniel Kiper
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commit 69edb31205
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@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ static grub_addr_t initrd_end;
grub_err_t
grub_arch_efi_linux_check_image (struct linux_arch_kernel_header * lh)
{
if (lh->magic != GRUB_LINUX_ARMXX_MAGIC_SIGNATURE)
return grub_error(GRUB_ERR_BAD_OS, "invalid magic number");
if ((lh->code0 & 0xffff) != GRUB_PE32_MAGIC)
return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED_YET,
N_("plain image kernel not supported - rebuild with CONFIG_(U)EFI_STUB enabled"));