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authorAdam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>2010-11-04 23:22:15 +0100
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2010-11-16 09:31:18 -0600
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tree93a557ef00077b03fd0f265f990d42bb0106a672 /hw
parentb538e53ee7e8b9e2920d3286b480276cef209fd4 (diff)
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multiboot: Prevent loading of x86_64 images
A via -kernel supplied x86_64 ELF image is being started in 32bit mode. Detect and exit if a 64bit image has been supplied. Signed-off-by: Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw')
-rw-r--r--hw/multiboot.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hw/multiboot.c b/hw/multiboot.c
index f9097a2..e710bbb 100644
--- a/hw/multiboot.c
+++ b/hw/multiboot.c
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ int load_multiboot(void *fw_cfg,
uint64_t elf_low, elf_high;
int kernel_size;
fclose(f);
+
+ if (((struct elf64_hdr*)header)->e_machine == EM_X86_64) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Cannot load x86-64 image, give a 32bit one.\n");
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
kernel_size = load_elf(kernel_filename, NULL, NULL, &elf_entry,
&elf_low, &elf_high, 0, ELF_MACHINE, 0);
if (kernel_size < 0) {