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Commit eeb89e2b authored by Joerg Roedel's avatar Joerg Roedel Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/efi: Load fixmap GDT in efi_call_phys_epilog()



When PTI is enabled on x86-32 the kernel uses the GDT mapped in the fixmap
for the simple reason that this address is also mapped for user-space.

The efi_call_phys_prolog()/efi_call_phys_epilog() wrappers change the GDT
to call EFI runtime services and switch back to the kernel GDT when they
return. But the switch-back uses the writable GDT, not the fixmap GDT.

When that happened and and the CPU returns to user-space it switches to the
user %cr3 and tries to restore user segment registers. This fails because
the writable GDT is not mapped in the user page-table, and without a GDT
the fault handlers also can't be launched. The result is a triple fault and
reboot of the machine.

Fix that by restoring the GDT back to the fixmap GDT which is also mapped
in the user page-table.

Fixes: 7757d607 x86/pti: ('Allow CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION for x86_32')
Reported-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1535702738-10971-1-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org
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