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Commit 45b13b42 authored by Kirill A. Shutemov's avatar Kirill A. Shutemov Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/boot/compressed/64: Do not corrupt EDX on EFER.LME=1 setting

RDMSR in the trampoline code overwrites EDX but that register is used
to indicate whether 5-level paging has to be enabled and if clobbered,
leads to failure to boot on a 5-level paging machine.

Preserve EDX on the stack while we are dealing with EFER.

Fixes: b677dfae

 ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Set EFER.LME=1 in 32-bit trampoline before returning to long mode")
Reported-by: default avatarKyle D Pelton <kyle.d.pelton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190206115253.1907-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
parent d28af26f
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