Re: [PATCH v6 31/76] x86/head/64: Setup MSR_GS_BASE before calling into C code

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:54:26AM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
> index 2b2e91627221..800053219054 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
> @@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(startup_64)
>  	call	startup_64_setup_env
>  	popq	%rsi
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Setup %gs here already to make stack-protector work - it needs to be
> +	 * setup again after the switch to kernel addresses. The address read
> +	 * from initial_gs is a kernel address, so it needs to be adjusted first
> +	 * for the identity mapping.
> +	 */
> +	movl	$MSR_GS_BASE,%ecx

I'm confused: is this missing those three lines:

        movl    initial_gs(%rip),%eax
        movl    initial_gs+4(%rip),%edx
        wrmsr

as it is done in secondary_startup_64 ?

Or why would you otherwise put 0xc0000101 in %ecx and not do anything
with it...

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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