Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] efi/x86: Don't depend on firmware GDT layout

[Arvind Sankar]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 06:54:48PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 18:13, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > At handover entry in efi32_stub_entry, the firmware's GDT is still
> > installed. We save the GDTR for later use in __efi64_thunk but we are
> > assuming that descriptor 2 (__KERNEL_CS) is a valid 32-bit code segment
> > descriptor and that descriptor 3 (__KERNEL_DS/__BOOT_DS) is a valid data
> > segment descriptor.
> >
> > This happens to be true for OVMF (it actually uses descriptor 1 for data
> > segments, but descriptor 3 is also setup as data), but we shouldn't
> > depend on this being the case.
> >
> > Fix this by saving the code and data selectors in addition to the GDTR
> > in efi32_stub_entry, and restoring them in __efi64_thunk before calling
> > the firmware. The UEFI specification guarantees that selectors will be
> > flat, so using the DS selector for all the segment registers should be
> > enough.
> >
> > We also need to install our own GDT before initializing segment
> > registers in startup_32, so move the GDT load up to the beginning of the
> > function.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> It might be useful to mention /somewhere/ in the commit log that this
> applies to mixed mode
> 

Good point. I'll wait for comments from the x86 guys and include that in
the next re-spin.