diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 40d2ff5..71fc531 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -z noexecstack
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_LD_IS_BFD),y)
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux += $(call ld-option,--no-warn-rwx-segments)
 endif
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_EFI_STUB),y)
+# ensure that the static EFI stub library will be pulled in, even if it is
+# never referenced explicitly from the startup code
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -u efi_pe_entry
+endif
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -T
 
 hostprogs	:= mkpiggy
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S
index 8a02a15..f4e22ef 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S
@@ -269,10 +269,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(efi32_entry)
 	jmp	startup_32
 SYM_FUNC_END(efi32_entry)
 
-#define ST32_boottime		60 // offsetof(efi_system_table_32_t, boottime)
-#define BS32_handle_protocol	88 // offsetof(efi_boot_services_32_t, handle_protocol)
-#define LI32_image_base		32 // offsetof(efi_loaded_image_32_t, image_base)
-
 /*
  * efi_status_t efi32_pe_entry(efi_handle_t image_handle,
  *			       efi_system_table_32_t *sys_table)
@@ -280,8 +276,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(efi32_entry)
 SYM_FUNC_START(efi32_pe_entry)
 	pushl	%ebp
 	movl	%esp, %ebp
-	pushl	%eax				// dummy push to allocate loaded_image
-
 	pushl	%ebx				// save callee-save registers
 	pushl	%edi
 
@@ -290,48 +284,8 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(efi32_pe_entry)
 	movl	$0x80000003, %eax		// EFI_UNSUPPORTED
 	jnz	2f
 
-	call	1f
-1:	pop	%ebx
-
-	/* Get the loaded image protocol pointer from the image handle */
-	leal	-4(%ebp), %eax
-	pushl	%eax				// &loaded_image
-	leal	(loaded_image_proto - 1b)(%ebx), %eax
-	pushl	%eax				// pass the GUID address
-	pushl	8(%ebp)				// pass the image handle
-
-	/*
-	 * Note the alignment of the stack frame.
-	 *   sys_table
-	 *   handle             <-- 16-byte aligned on entry by ABI
-	 *   return address
-	 *   frame pointer
-	 *   loaded_image       <-- local variable
-	 *   saved %ebx		<-- 16-byte aligned here
-	 *   saved %edi
-	 *   &loaded_image
-	 *   &loaded_image_proto
-	 *   handle             <-- 16-byte aligned for call to handle_protocol
-	 */
-
-	movl	12(%ebp), %eax			// sys_table
-	movl	ST32_boottime(%eax), %eax	// sys_table->boottime
-	call	*BS32_handle_protocol(%eax)	// sys_table->boottime->handle_protocol
-	addl	$12, %esp			// restore argument space
-	testl	%eax, %eax
-	jnz	2f
-
 	movl	8(%ebp), %ecx			// image_handle
 	movl	12(%ebp), %edx			// sys_table
-	movl	-4(%ebp), %esi			// loaded_image
-	movl	LI32_image_base(%esi), %esi	// loaded_image->image_base
-	leal	(startup_32 - 1b)(%ebx), %ebp	// runtime address of startup_32
-	/*
-	 * We need to set the image_offset variable here since startup_32() will
-	 * use it before we get to the 64-bit efi_pe_entry() in C code.
-	 */
-	subl	%esi, %ebp			// calculate image_offset
-	movl	%ebp, (image_offset - 1b)(%ebx)	// save image_offset
 	xorl	%esi, %esi
 	jmp	efi32_entry			// pass %ecx, %edx, %esi
 						// no other registers remain live
@@ -350,15 +304,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_NOALIGN(efi64_stub_entry)
 SYM_FUNC_END(efi64_stub_entry)
 #endif
 
-	.section ".rodata"
-	/* EFI loaded image protocol GUID */
-	.balign 4
-SYM_DATA_START_LOCAL(loaded_image_proto)
-	.long	0x5b1b31a1
-	.word	0x9562, 0x11d2
-	.byte	0x8e, 0x3f, 0x00, 0xa0, 0xc9, 0x69, 0x72, 0x3b
-SYM_DATA_END(loaded_image_proto)
-
 	.data
 	.balign	8
 SYM_DATA_START_LOCAL(efi32_boot_gdt)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S
index 3af4a38..1cfe980 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S
@@ -84,19 +84,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(startup_32)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
 	leal	startup_32@GOTOFF(%edx), %ebx
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_EFI_STUB
-/*
- * If we were loaded via the EFI LoadImage service, startup_32() will be at an
- * offset to the start of the space allocated for the image. efi_pe_entry() will
- * set up image_offset to tell us where the image actually starts, so that we
- * can use the full available buffer.
- *	image_offset = startup_32 - image_base
- * Otherwise image_offset will be zero and has no effect on the calculations.
- */
-	subl    image_offset@GOTOFF(%edx), %ebx
-#endif
-
 	movl	BP_kernel_alignment(%esi), %eax
 	decl	%eax
 	addl    %eax, %ebx
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
index 28f4605..bf4a10a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
@@ -146,19 +146,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(startup_32)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
 	movl	%ebp, %ebx
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_EFI_STUB
-/*
- * If we were loaded via the EFI LoadImage service, startup_32 will be at an
- * offset to the start of the space allocated for the image. efi_pe_entry will
- * set up image_offset to tell us where the image actually starts, so that we
- * can use the full available buffer.
- *	image_offset = startup_32 - image_base
- * Otherwise image_offset will be zero and has no effect on the calculations.
- */
-	subl    rva(image_offset)(%ebp), %ebx
-#endif
-
 	movl	BP_kernel_alignment(%esi), %eax
 	decl	%eax
 	addl	%eax, %ebx
@@ -335,20 +322,6 @@ SYM_CODE_START(startup_64)
 	/* Start with the delta to where the kernel will run at. */
 #ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
 	leaq	startup_32(%rip) /* - $startup_32 */, %rbp
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_EFI_STUB
-/*
- * If we were loaded via the EFI LoadImage service, startup_32 will be at an
- * offset to the start of the space allocated for the image. efi_pe_entry will
- * set up image_offset to tell us where the image actually starts, so that we
- * can use the full available buffer.
- *	image_offset = startup_32 - image_base
- * Otherwise image_offset will be zero and has no effect on the calculations.
- */
-	movl    image_offset(%rip), %eax
-	subq	%rax, %rbp
-#endif
-
 	movl	BP_kernel_alignment(%rsi), %eax
 	decl	%eax
 	addq	%rax, %rbp
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
index 8b4be7c..b0994ae 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ static inline void efi_fpu_end(void)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+#define EFI_X86_KERNEL_ALLOC_LIMIT		(SZ_512M - 1)
+
 #define arch_efi_call_virt_setup()					\
 ({									\
 	efi_fpu_begin();						\
@@ -103,8 +105,7 @@ static inline void efi_fpu_end(void)
 })
 
 #else /* !CONFIG_X86_32 */
-
-#define EFI_LOADER_SIGNATURE	"EL64"
+#define EFI_X86_KERNEL_ALLOC_LIMIT		EFI_ALLOC_LIMIT
 
 extern asmlinkage u64 __efi_call(void *fp, ...);
 
@@ -218,6 +219,8 @@ efi_status_t efi_set_virtual_address_map(unsigned long memory_map_size,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_MIXED
 
+#define EFI_ALLOC_LIMIT		(efi_is_64bit() ? ULONG_MAX : U32_MAX)
+
 #define ARCH_HAS_EFISTUB_WRAPPERS
 
 static inline bool efi_is_64bit(void)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sev.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sev.h
index b97d239..5b4a1ce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sev.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sev.h
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ static __always_inline void sev_es_nmi_complete(void)
 		__sev_es_nmi_complete();
 }
 extern int __init sev_es_efi_map_ghcbs(pgd_t *pgd);
+extern void sev_enable(struct boot_params *bp);
 
 static inline int rmpadjust(unsigned long vaddr, bool rmp_psize, unsigned long attrs)
 {
@@ -218,6 +219,7 @@ static inline void sev_es_ist_exit(void) { }
 static inline int sev_es_setup_ap_jump_table(struct real_mode_header *rmh) { return 0; }
 static inline void sev_es_nmi_complete(void) { }
 static inline int sev_es_efi_map_ghcbs(pgd_t *pgd) { return 0; }
+static inline void sev_enable(struct boot_params *bp) { }
 static inline int pvalidate(unsigned long vaddr, bool rmp_psize, bool validate) { return 0; }
 static inline int rmpadjust(unsigned long vaddr, bool rmp_psize, unsigned long attrs) { return 0; }
 static inline void setup_ghcb(void) { }
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
index b4685da..e976288 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
@@ -15,17 +15,14 @@
 #include <asm/setup.h>
 #include <asm/desc.h>
 #include <asm/boot.h>
+#include <asm/kaslr.h>
 #include <asm/sev.h>
 
 #include "efistub.h"
 #include "x86-stub.h"
 
-/* Maximum physical address for 64-bit kernel with 4-level paging */
-#define MAXMEM_X86_64_4LEVEL (1ull << 46)
-
 const efi_system_table_t *efi_system_table;
 const efi_dxe_services_table_t *efi_dxe_table;
-u32 image_offset __section(".data");
 static efi_loaded_image_t *image = NULL;
 static efi_memory_attribute_protocol_t *memattr;
 
@@ -287,28 +284,6 @@ void efi_adjust_memory_range_protection(unsigned long start,
 	}
 }
 
-extern const u8 startup_32[], startup_64[];
-
-static void
-setup_memory_protection(unsigned long image_base, unsigned long image_size)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
-	if (image_base != (unsigned long)startup_32)
-		efi_adjust_memory_range_protection(image_base, image_size);
-#else
-	/*
-	 * Clear protection flags on a whole range of possible
-	 * addresses used for KASLR. We don't need to do that
-	 * on x86_64, since KASLR/extraction is performed after
-	 * dedicated identity page tables are built and we only
-	 * need to remove possible protection on relocated image
-	 * itself disregarding further relocations.
-	 */
-	efi_adjust_memory_range_protection(LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR,
-					   KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE - LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR);
-#endif
-}
-
 static void setup_unaccepted_memory(void)
 {
 	efi_guid_t mem_acceptance_proto = OVMF_SEV_MEMORY_ACCEPTANCE_PROTOCOL_GUID;
@@ -334,9 +309,7 @@ static void setup_unaccepted_memory(void)
 
 static const efi_char16_t apple[] = L"Apple";
 
-static void setup_quirks(struct boot_params *boot_params,
-			 unsigned long image_base,
-			 unsigned long image_size)
+static void setup_quirks(struct boot_params *boot_params)
 {
 	efi_char16_t *fw_vendor = (efi_char16_t *)(unsigned long)
 		efi_table_attr(efi_system_table, fw_vendor);
@@ -345,9 +318,6 @@ static void setup_quirks(struct boot_params *boot_params,
 		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_APPLE_PROPERTIES))
 			retrieve_apple_device_properties(boot_params);
 	}
-
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_DXE_MEM_ATTRIBUTES))
-		setup_memory_protection(image_base, image_size);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -500,7 +470,6 @@ efi_status_t __efiapi efi_pe_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
 	}
 
 	image_base = efi_table_attr(image, image_base);
-	image_offset = (void *)startup_32 - image_base;
 
 	status = efi_allocate_pages(sizeof(struct boot_params),
 				    (unsigned long *)&boot_params, ULONG_MAX);
@@ -804,6 +773,61 @@ static bool have_unsupported_snp_features(void)
 	return false;
 }
 
+static void efi_get_seed(void *seed, int size)
+{
+	efi_get_random_bytes(size, seed);
+
+	/*
+	 * This only updates seed[0] when running on 32-bit, but in that case,
+	 * seed[1] is not used anyway, as there is no virtual KASLR on 32-bit.
+	 */
+	*(unsigned long *)seed ^= kaslr_get_random_long("EFI");
+}
+
+static void error(char *str)
+{
+	efi_warn("Decompression failed: %s\n", str);
+}
+
+static efi_status_t efi_decompress_kernel(unsigned long *kernel_entry)
+{
+	unsigned long virt_addr = LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR;
+	unsigned long addr, alloc_size, entry;
+	efi_status_t status;
+	u32 seed[2] = {};
+
+	/* determine the required size of the allocation */
+	alloc_size = ALIGN(max_t(unsigned long, output_len, kernel_total_size),
+			   MIN_KERNEL_ALIGN);
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) && !efi_nokaslr) {
+		u64 range = KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE - LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR - kernel_total_size;
+
+		efi_get_seed(seed, sizeof(seed));
+
+		virt_addr += (range * seed[1]) >> 32;
+		virt_addr &= ~(CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN - 1);
+	}
+
+	status = efi_random_alloc(alloc_size, CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN, &addr,
+				  seed[0], EFI_LOADER_CODE,
+				  EFI_X86_KERNEL_ALLOC_LIMIT);
+	if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
+		return status;
+
+	entry = decompress_kernel((void *)addr, virt_addr, error);
+	if (entry == ULONG_MAX) {
+		efi_free(alloc_size, addr);
+		return EFI_LOAD_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	*kernel_entry = addr + entry;
+
+	efi_adjust_memory_range_protection(addr, kernel_total_size);
+
+	return EFI_SUCCESS;
+}
+
 static void __noreturn enter_kernel(unsigned long kernel_addr,
 				    struct boot_params *boot_params)
 {
@@ -823,10 +847,9 @@ void __noreturn efi_stub_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
 			       struct boot_params *boot_params)
 {
 	efi_guid_t guid = EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PROTOCOL_GUID;
-	unsigned long bzimage_addr = (unsigned long)startup_32;
-	unsigned long buffer_start, buffer_end;
 	struct setup_header *hdr = &boot_params->hdr;
 	const struct linux_efi_initrd *initrd = NULL;
+	unsigned long kernel_entry;
 	efi_status_t status;
 
 	efi_system_table = sys_table_arg;
@@ -855,60 +878,6 @@ void __noreturn efi_stub_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
 		goto fail;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * If the kernel isn't already loaded at a suitable address,
-	 * relocate it.
-	 *
-	 * It must be loaded above LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR.
-	 *
-	 * The maximum address for 64-bit is 1 << 46 for 4-level paging. This
-	 * is defined as the macro MAXMEM, but unfortunately that is not a
-	 * compile-time constant if 5-level paging is configured, so we instead
-	 * define our own macro for use here.
-	 *
-	 * For 32-bit, the maximum address is complicated to figure out, for
-	 * now use KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE, which will be 512MiB, the same as what
-	 * KASLR uses.
-	 *
-	 * Also relocate it if image_offset is zero, i.e. the kernel wasn't
-	 * loaded by LoadImage, but rather by a bootloader that called the
-	 * handover entry. The reason we must always relocate in this case is
-	 * to handle the case of systemd-boot booting a unified kernel image,
-	 * which is a PE executable that contains the bzImage and an initrd as
-	 * COFF sections. The initrd section is placed after the bzImage
-	 * without ensuring that there are at least init_size bytes available
-	 * for the bzImage, and thus the compressed kernel's startup code may
-	 * overwrite the initrd unless it is moved out of the way.
-	 */
-
-	buffer_start = ALIGN(bzimage_addr - image_offset,
-			     hdr->kernel_alignment);
-	buffer_end = buffer_start + hdr->init_size;
-
-	if ((buffer_start < LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR)				     ||
-	    (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_32) && buffer_end > KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE)    ||
-	    (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64) && buffer_end > MAXMEM_X86_64_4LEVEL) ||
-	    (image_offset == 0)) {
-		extern char _bss[];
-
-		status = efi_relocate_kernel(&bzimage_addr,
-					     (unsigned long)_bss - bzimage_addr,
-					     hdr->init_size,
-					     hdr->pref_address,
-					     hdr->kernel_alignment,
-					     LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR);
-		if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
-			efi_err("efi_relocate_kernel() failed!\n");
-			goto fail;
-		}
-		/*
-		 * Now that we've copied the kernel elsewhere, we no longer
-		 * have a set up block before startup_32(), so reset image_offset
-		 * to zero in case it was set earlier.
-		 */
-		image_offset = 0;
-	}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL
 	status = efi_parse_options(CONFIG_CMDLINE);
 	if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
@@ -926,6 +895,12 @@ void __noreturn efi_stub_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
 		}
 	}
 
+	status = efi_decompress_kernel(&kernel_entry);
+	if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
+		efi_err("Failed to decompress kernel\n");
+		goto fail;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * At this point, an initrd may already have been loaded by the
 	 * bootloader and passed via bootparams. We permit an initrd loaded
@@ -965,7 +940,7 @@ void __noreturn efi_stub_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
 
 	setup_efi_pci(boot_params);
 
-	setup_quirks(boot_params, bzimage_addr, buffer_end - buffer_start);
+	setup_quirks(boot_params);
 
 	setup_unaccepted_memory();
 
@@ -975,12 +950,15 @@ void __noreturn efi_stub_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
 		goto fail;
 	}
 
-	efi_5level_switch();
+	/*
+	 * Call the SEV init code while still running with the firmware's
+	 * GDT/IDT, so #VC exceptions will be handled by EFI.
+	 */
+	sev_enable(boot_params);
 
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64))
-		bzimage_addr += startup_64 - startup_32;
+	efi_5level_switch();
 
-	enter_kernel(bzimage_addr, boot_params);
+	enter_kernel(kernel_entry, boot_params);
 fail:
 	efi_err("efi_stub_entry() failed!\n");
 
