Blame SOURCES/0005-Once-again-try-even-harder-to-get-binaries-without-t.patch

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From fea3f2ec1936cfb9ed0b3ee62d9d23698097b814 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:52:02 -0400
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Subject: [PATCH] Once again, try even harder to get binaries without
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 timestamps in them.
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$ objdump -x /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/shim-*/usr/share/shim/*/shimx64.efi | grep 'Time/Date'
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Time/Date		Thu Jan  1 00:00:08 1970
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$ _
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"What is despair? I have known it—hear my song. Despair is when you’re
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debugging a kernel driver and you look at a memory dump and you see that
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a pointer has a value of 7."
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 - http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatch.pdf
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objcopy only knows about -D for some targets.
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ld only believes in --no-insert-timestamp in some versions.
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dd takes off and nukes the site from orbit.
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It's the only way to be sure.
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Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
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---
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 Make.defaults | 4 ++++
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 Makefile      | 6 ++++--
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 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Make.defaults b/Make.defaults
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index e11ab5a7f2c..4c26c1adf1f 100644
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--- a/Make.defaults
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+++ b/Make.defaults
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@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
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 	ARCH_SUFFIX		?= x64
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 	ARCH_SUFFIX_UPPER	?= X64
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 	ARCH_LDFLAGS		?=
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+	TIMESTAMP_LOCATION	:= 136
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 endif
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 ifeq ($(ARCH),ia32)
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 	CFLAGS	+= -mno-mmx -mno-sse -mno-red-zone -nostdinc \
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@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ ifeq ($(ARCH),ia32)
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 	ARCH_SUFFIX		?= ia32
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 	ARCH_SUFFIX_UPPER	?= IA32
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 	ARCH_LDFLAGS		?=
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+	TIMESTAMP_LOCATION	:= 136
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 endif
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 ifeq ($(ARCH),aarch64)
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 	CFLAGS += -DMDE_CPU_AARCH64 -DPAGE_SIZE=4096 -mstrict-align
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@@ -90,6 +92,7 @@ ifeq ($(ARCH),aarch64)
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 	FORMAT			:= -O binary
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 	SUBSYSTEM		:= 0xa
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 	ARCH_LDFLAGS		+= --defsym=EFI_SUBSYSTEM=$(SUBSYSTEM)
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+	TIMESTAMP_LOCATION	:= 72
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 endif
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 ifeq ($(ARCH),arm)
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 	CFLAGS += -DMDE_CPU_ARM -DPAGE_SIZE=4096 -mstrict-align
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@@ -99,6 +102,7 @@ ifeq ($(ARCH),arm)
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 	FORMAT			:= -O binary
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 	SUBSYSTEM		:= 0xa
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 	ARCH_LDFLAGS		+= --defsym=EFI_SUBSYSTEM=$(SUBSYSTEM)
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+	TIMESTAMP_LOCATION	:= 72
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 endif
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 FORMAT		?= --target efi-app-$(ARCH)
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
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index 115e7f08c0f..a012c9f0d16 100644
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--- a/Makefile
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+++ b/Makefile
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@@ -189,11 +189,13 @@ endif
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 ifneq ($(OBJCOPY_GTE224),1)
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 	$(error objcopy >= 2.24 is required)
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 endif
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-	$(OBJCOPY) -j .text -j .sdata -j .data -j .data.ident \
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+	$(OBJCOPY) -D -j .text -j .sdata -j .data -j .data.ident \
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 		-j .dynamic -j .dynsym -j .rel* \
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 		-j .rela* -j .reloc -j .eh_frame \
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 		-j .vendor_cert \
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 		$(FORMAT) $^ $@
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+	# I am tired of wasting my time fighting binutils timestamp code.
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+	dd conv=notrunc bs=1 count=4 seek=$(TIMESTAMP_LOCATION) if=/dev/zero of=$@
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 ifneq ($(origin ENABLE_SHIM_HASH),undefined)
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 %.hash : %.efi
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@@ -204,7 +206,7 @@ endif
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 ifneq ($(OBJCOPY_GTE224),1)
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 	$(error objcopy >= 2.24 is required)
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 endif
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-	$(OBJCOPY) -j .text -j .sdata -j .data \
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+	$(OBJCOPY) -D -j .text -j .sdata -j .data \
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 		-j .dynamic -j .dynsym -j .rel* \
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 		-j .rela* -j .reloc -j .eh_frame \
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 		-j .debug_info -j .debug_abbrev -j .debug_aranges \
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-- 
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2.20.1
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