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Commit bdec8d7f authored by Kairui Song's avatar Kairui Song Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/boot: Fix kexec booting failure in the SEV bit detection code

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  1958b5fc ("x86/boot: Add early boot support when running with SEV active")

can occasionally cause system resets when kexec-ing a second kernel even
if SEV is not active.

That's because get_sev_encryption_bit() uses 32-bit rIP-relative
addressing to read the value of enc_bit - a variable which caches a
previously detected encryption bit position - but kexec may allocate
the early boot code to a higher location, beyond the 32-bit addressing
limit.

In this case, garbage will be read and get_sev_encryption_bit() will
return the wrong value, leading to accessing memory with the wrong
encryption setting.

Therefore, remove enc_bit, and thus get rid of the need to do 32-bit
rIP-relative addressing in the first place.

 [ bp: massage commit message heavily. ]

Fixes: 1958b5fc

 ("x86/boot: Add early boot support when running with SEV active")
Suggested-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: brijesh.singh@amd.com
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com
Cc: bhe@redhat.com
Cc: ghook@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180927123845.32052-1-kasong@redhat.com
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