This is a backport of:
commit cb32c69920e58a1a58e7b5cad975038a69c0ce7d upstream
On the 80486 DX, it seems that some exceptions may leave garbage in
the high bits of CS. This causes sporadic failures in which
early_fixup_exception() refuses to fix up an exception.
As far as I can tell, this has been buggy for a long time, but the
problem seems to have been exacerbated by commit 1e02ce4cccdc ("x86:
Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4") and commit e1bfc11c5a6f
("x86/init: Fix cr4_init_shadow() on CR4-less machines").
This appears to have broken for as long as we've had early
exception handling.
[ This backport should apply to kernels from 3.4 - 4.5. ]
Fixes: 4c5023a3fa2e ("x86-32: Handle exception table entries during early boot")
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
index af1112980dd4..99373aa0762a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ early_idt_handler_common:
movl %eax,%ds
movl %eax,%es
- cmpl $(__KERNEL_CS),32(%esp)
+ cmpw $(__KERNEL_CS),32(%esp)
jne 10f
leal 28(%esp),%eax # Pointer to %eip
--
2.9.3
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