This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/idt: Load idt early in start_secondary
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-idt-load-idt-early-in-start_secondary.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 55d2d0ad2fb4325f615d1950486fbc5e6fba1769 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:21:39 +0800
Subject: x86/idt: Load idt early in start_secondary
From: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 55d2d0ad2fb4325f615d1950486fbc5e6fba1769 upstream.
On a secondary, idt is first loaded in cpu_init() with load_current_idt(),
i.e. no exceptions can be handled before that point.
The conversion of WARN() to use UD requires the IDT being loaded earlier as
any warning between start_secondary() and load_curren_idt() in cpu_init()
will result in an unhandled @UD exception and therefore fail the bringup of
the CPU.
Install the IDT handlers right in start_secondary() before calling cpu_init().
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Fixes: 9a93848fe787 ("x86/debug: Implement __WARN() using UD0")
Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: bp@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1511792499-4073-1-git-send-email-chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static void notrace start_secondary(void
load_cr3(swapper_pg_dir);
__flush_tlb_all();
#endif
-
+ load_current_idt();
cpu_init();
x86_cpuinit.early_percpu_clock_init();
preempt_disable();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/x86-idt-load-idt-early-in-start_secondary.patch