From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Calling C code via a different mapping than it was linked at is problematic, because the compiler assumes that RIP-relative and absolute symbol references are interchangeable. GCC in particular may use RIP-relative per-CPU variable references even when not using -fpic. So call xen_prepare_pvh() via its kernel virtual mapping on x86_64, so that those RIP-relative references produce the correct values. This matches the pre-existing behavior for i386, which also invokes xen_prepare_pvh() via the kernel virtual mapping before invoking startup_32 with paging disabled again. Fixes: 7243b93345f7 ("xen/pvh: Bootstrap PVH guest") Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/platform/pvh/head.S | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/pvh/head.S b/arch/x86/platform/pvh/head.S index f7235ef87bc3..a308b79a887c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/pvh/head.S +++ b/arch/x86/platform/pvh/head.S @@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL(pvh_start_xen) xor %edx, %edx wrmsr - call xen_prepare_pvh + /* Call xen_prepare_pvh() via the kernel virtual mapping */ + leaq xen_prepare_pvh(%rip), %rax + addq $__START_KERNEL_map, %rax + ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE + call *%rax /* startup_64 expects boot_params in %rsi. */ mov $_pa(pvh_bootparams), %rsi -- 2.46.0.792.g87dc391469-goog