Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] x86/bugs: Add asm helpers for executing VERW

[Andrew Cooper]

On 01/12/2023 7:36 pm, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 07:38:40AM -0700, Pawan Gupta wrote:
>> +.pushsection .entry.text, "ax"
>> +
>> +.align L1_CACHE_BYTES, 0xcc
>> +SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(mds_verw_sel)
>> +	UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED
>> +	ANNOTATE_NOENDBR
>> +	.word __KERNEL_DS
>> +.align L1_CACHE_BYTES, 0xcc
>> +SYM_CODE_END(mds_verw_sel);
>> +/* For KVM */
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mds_verw_sel);
>> +
>> +.popsection
> This is data, so why is it "CODE" in .entry.text?

Because KPTI.

~Andrew