The following commit has been merged into the x86/boot branch of tip: Commit-ID: 34bb49229f19399a5b45c323afb5749f31f7876c Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/34bb49229f19399a5b45c323afb5749f31f7876c Author: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:16:22 +02:00 Committer: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Mon, 04 May 2020 19:53:08 +02:00 x86/boot/compressed/64: Switch to __KERNEL_CS after GDT is loaded When the pre-decompression code loads its first GDT in startup_64(), it is still running on the CS value of the previous GDT. In the case of SEV-ES, this is the EFI GDT but it can be anything depending on what has loaded the kernel (boot loader, container runtime, etc.) To make exception handling work (especially IRET) the CPU needs to switch to a CS value in the current GDT, so jump to __KERNEL_CS after the first GDT is loaded. This is prudent also as a general sanitization of CS to a known good value. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428151725.31091-13-joro@xxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S index 4f7e6b8..6b11060 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S @@ -393,6 +393,14 @@ SYM_CODE_START(startup_64) addq %rax, 2(%rax) lgdt (%rax) + /* Reload CS so IRET returns to a CS actually in the GDT */ + pushq $__KERNEL_CS + leaq .Lon_kernel_cs(%rip), %rax + pushq %rax + lretq + +.Lon_kernel_cs: + /* * paging_prepare() sets up the trampoline and checks if we need to * enable 5-level paging.
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