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x86/boot: Add back some padding for the CRC-32 checksum
Even though no uses of the bzImage CRC-32 checksum are known, ensure that the last 4 bytes of the image are unused zero bytes, so that the checksum can be generated post-build if needed. [ mingo: Added the 'obsolete' qualifier to the comment. ] Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312081204.521411-2-ardb+git@google.com
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arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S

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. = ALIGN(0x200);
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/* Add 4 bytes of extra space for the obsolete CRC-32 checksum */
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. = ALIGN(. + 4, 0x200);
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_edata = . ;
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. = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);

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