[Bug 1947046] Re: EFI stub: ERROR: FIRMWARE BUG: kernel image not aligned on 64k boundary

[Akihiro Suda]

Sorry, https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/712 might not be related
to this issue.

The reporters of https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/712 say that the
kernel doesn't boot at all after seeing the "EFI stub: ERROR: FIRMWARE
BUG: kernel image not aligned on 64k boundary" lines.

They are using M1 macOS version of QEMU (https://gitlab.com/qemu-
project/qemu/-/issues/899).


** Bug watch added: gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues #899
   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/899

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Title:
  EFI stub: ERROR: FIRMWARE BUG: kernel image not aligned on 64k
  boundary

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in grub2 source package in Jammy:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Recent kernels emit the following error message when booting on arm64 platforms:

    EFI stub: ERROR: FIRMWARE BUG: kernel image not aligned on 64k
  boundary

  While this doesn't appear to cause any functional issues - and indeed,
  the kernel commit that added the error[*] says "We can deal with this,
  but let's check for this condition anyway", it is still likely to
  cause user concern.

  [*]
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c32ac11da3f83bb42b986702a9b92f0a14ed4182

  [Test Case]
  Boot a recent kernel on an EFI-based arm64 system (impish will do, but the kernel patch is also hitting kernels in older releases). This message will be emitted after GRUB execs the kernel EFI stub.

  [Fix]
  https://github.com/rhboot/grub2/commit/6a5babc21e3ec665e0bae30e399db296451c121e

  [What Could Go Wrong]

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