Re: [PATCH v2] x86: fix early boot crash on gcc-10

[Borislav Petkov]

Ok,

let's try the simple and clean fix first. Nick, would that work on LLVM
too?

And I hope this will remain working and the compiler won't jump over an
inline asm and go nuts.

Thx.

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 3b9bf8c7e29d..06d2e16bedbb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -266,6 +266,13 @@ static void notrace start_secondary(void *unused)
 
 	wmb();
 	cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);
+
+	/*
+	 * Prevent tail call to cpu_startup_entry() because the stack protector
+	 * guard has been changed in the middle of this function and must not be
+	 * checked before tail calling another function.
+	 */
+        asm ("");
 }
 
 /**

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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