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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2007-11-07 09:26:10 -0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2007-11-07 09:26:10 -0800
commitfd37475e9a5d969969efc811180e7f5e38dafce0 (patch)
treeb203b78713cd89dc82cd3b9648b4bcc0a476c4d9 /isolinux.asm
parentfe66201fedd68a163946635e5db2ad937178f136 (diff)
downloadsyslinux-fd37475e9a5d969969efc811180e7f5e38dafce0.tar.gz
Guard section to avoid future partial-sector-clobber issuessyslinux-3.53-pre3
Create a guard section .uibss that explicitly is covering the potential partial-sector-clobber zone, and contains items which are safe to assume will only be used after full image load.
Diffstat (limited to 'isolinux.asm')
-rw-r--r--isolinux.asm4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/isolinux.asm b/isolinux.asm
index 3ede48f6..d0e56fca 100644
--- a/isolinux.asm
+++ b/isolinux.asm
@@ -106,9 +106,7 @@ getcbuf resb trackbufsize
; ends at 4800h
; Some of these are touched before the whole image
- ; is loaded. DO NOT move this to .bss, since the beginning
- ; of .bss might be clobbered when loading the last fractional
- ; sector.
+ ; is loaded. DO NOT move this to .uibss.
section .bss1
alignb 4
ISOFileName resb 64 ; ISO filename canonicalization buffer