On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 00:19, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 23:07, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 07:37:17PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > So this is the host booting, right? > > > > Yes. > > > > > So is the position of the C bit perhaps getting detect incorrectly? > > > > I don't know yet. But the evildoer is someone else: > > > > 02d47ce2ae02 ("x86/head_64: Store boot_params pointer in callee save register") > > > > after bisection. More staring later as to why... > > > > How bizarre. > > But that was a bonus patch anyway, so we could just drop it for now. I suspect this should fix the issue: --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(startup_64) * programmed into CR3. */ leaq _text(%rip), %rdi + movq %r15, %rsi call __startup_64 /* Form the CR3 value being sure to include the CR3 modifier */