[PATCH 4.14 038/167] x86/xen: init %gs very early to avoid page faults with stack protector

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-02-21T12:47:29Z

From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

commit 4f277295e54c5b7340e48efea3fc5cc21a2872b7 upstream.

When running as Xen pv guest %gs is initialized some time after
C code is started. Depending on stack protector usage this might be
too late, resulting in page faults.

So setup %gs and MSR_GS_BASE in assembly code already.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Chris Patterson <cjp256@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@

#include <asm/boot.h>
#include <asm/asm.h>
+#include <asm/msr.h>
#include <asm/page_types.h>
+#include <asm/percpu.h>
#include <asm/unwind_hints.h>

#include <xen/interface/elfnote.h>
@@ -35,6 +37,20 @@ ENTRY(startup_xen)
mov %_ASM_SI, xen_start_info
mov $init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE, %_ASM_SP

+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ /* Set up %gs.
+ *
+ * The base of %gs always points to the bottom of the irqstack
+ * union. If the stack protector canary is enabled, it is
+ * located at %gs:40. Note that, on SMP, the boot cpu uses
+ * init data section till per cpu areas are set up.
+ */
+ movl $MSR_GS_BASE,%ecx
+ movq $INIT_PER_CPU_VAR(irq_stack_union),%rax
+ cdq
+ wrmsr
+#endif
+
jmp xen_start_kernel
END(startup_xen)
__FINIT