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Ard Biesheuvel 9c54baab44 x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it 
Apart from some sanity checks on the size of setup.bin, the only
remaining task carried out by the arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c build tool
is generating the CRC-32 checksum of the bzImage. This feature was added
in commit

  7d6e737c8d ("x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image.")

without any motivation (or any commit log text, for that matter). This
checksum is not verified by any known bootloader, and given that

 a) the checksum of the entire bzImage is reported by most tools (zlib,
    rhash) as 0xffffffff and not 0x0 as documented,

 b) the checksum is corrupted when the image is signed for secure boot,
    which means that no distro ships x86 images with valid CRCs,

it seems quite unlikely that this checksum is being used, so let's just
drop it, along with the tool that generates it.

Instead, use simple file concatenation and truncation to combine the two
pieces into bzImage, and replace the checks on the size of the setup
block with a couple of ASSERT()s in the linker script.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307164801.885261-2-ardb+git@google.com
2025-03-07 23:59:10 +01:00
arch x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it 2025-03-07 23:59:10 +01:00
block block-6.14-20250221 2025-02-21 09:36:28 -08:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
Documentation x86/boot: Drop CRC-32 checksum and the build tool that generates it 2025-03-07 23:59:10 +01:00
drivers i2c-for-6.14-rc4 2025-02-23 10:37:18 -08:00
fs smb: client: Add check for next_buffer in receive_encrypted_standard() 2025-02-20 12:10:39 -06:00
include Two RSEQ fixes: 2025-02-22 09:30:04 -08:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.14 2025-01-31 12:07:07 -08:00
io_uring io_uring-6.14-20250221 2025-02-21 09:17:56 -08:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel Two RSEQ fixes: 2025-02-22 09:30:04 -08:00
lib test_xarray: fix failure in check_pause when CONFIG_XARRAY_MULTI is not defined 2025-02-17 22:40:04 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm kasan: don't call find_vm_area() in a PREEMPT_RT kernel 2025-02-17 22:40:04 -08:00
net BPF fixes: 2025-02-20 15:37:17 -08:00
rust Driver core api addition for 6.14-rc3 2025-02-16 12:54:42 -08:00
samples Driver core api addition for 6.14-rc3 2025-02-16 12:54:42 -08:00
scripts modpost: Fix a few typos in a comment 2025-02-16 03:10:58 +09:00
security Redo of pathname patternization and fix spelling errors. 2025-02-11 10:19:36 -08:00
sound ALSA: seq: Drop UMP events when no UMP-conversion is set 2025-02-17 18:02:02 +01:00
tools tracing fixes for v6.14: 2025-02-22 09:03:54 -08:00
usr kbuild: Drop support for include/asm-<arch> in headers_check.pl 2024-12-21 11:43:17 +09:00
virt KVM: remove kvm_arch_post_init_vm 2025-02-04 11:27:45 -05:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-01-10 00:17:25 +01:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: use host dylib naming convention to support macOS 2025-01-10 01:01:24 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Nick's entry 2025-02-17 22:40:03 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Pavel to kernel.org address 2025-02-07 09:12:33 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Miscellaneous x86 fixes: 2025-02-22 10:45:02 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.14-rc4 2025-02-23 12:32:57 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.