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Commit 708078f6 authored by Chang S. Bae's avatar Chang S. Bae Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/entry/64: Handle FSGSBASE enabled paranoid entry/exit



Without FSGSBASE, user space cannot change GSBASE other than through a
PRCTL. The kernel enforces that the user space GSBASE value is postive as
negative values are used for detecting the kernel space GSBASE value in the
paranoid entry code.

If FSGSBASE is enabled, user space can set arbitrary GSBASE values without
kernel intervention, including negative ones, which breaks the paranoid
entry assumptions.

To avoid this, paranoid entry needs to unconditionally save the current
GSBASE value independent of the interrupted context, retrieve and write the
kernel GSBASE and unconditionally restore the saved value on exit. The
restore happens either in paranoid_exit or in the special exit path of the
NMI low level code.

All other entry code pathes which use unconditional SWAPGS are not affected
as they do not depend on the actual content.

[ tglx: Massaged changelogs and comments ]

Suggested-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-13-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
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