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* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] x86/kexec: Restore GDT on return from ::preserve_context" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree
@ 2024-12-10 10:32 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2024-12-10 10:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dwmw, mingo; +Cc: stable


The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.4.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 07fa619f2a40c221ea27747a3323cabc59ab25eb
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2024121049-attire-ramble-432b@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.4.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 07fa619f2a40c221ea27747a3323cabc59ab25eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 15:05:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] x86/kexec: Restore GDT on return from ::preserve_context
 kexec

The restore_processor_state() function explicitly states that "the asm code
that gets us here will have restored a usable GDT". That wasn't true in the
case of returning from a ::preserve_context kexec. Make it so.

Without this, the kernel was depending on the called function to reload a
GDT which is appropriate for the kernel before returning.

Test program:

 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
 #include <linux/reboot.h>
 #include <sys/reboot.h>
 #include <sys/syscall.h>

 int main (void)
 {
        struct kexec_segment segment = {};
	unsigned char purgatory[] = {
		0x66, 0xba, 0xf8, 0x03,	// mov $0x3f8, %dx
		0xb0, 0x42,		// mov $0x42, %al
		0xee,			// outb %al, (%dx)
		0xc3,			// ret
	};
	int ret;

	segment.buf = &purgatory;
	segment.bufsz = sizeof(purgatory);
	segment.mem = (void *)0x400000;
	segment.memsz = 0x1000;
	ret = syscall(__NR_kexec_load, 0x400000, 1, &segment, KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT);
	if (ret) {
		perror("kexec_load");
		exit(1);
	}

	ret = syscall(__NR_reboot, LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1, LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC2, LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC);
	if (ret) {
		perror("kexec reboot");
		exit(1);
	}
	printf("Success\n");
	return 0;
 }

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241205153343.3275139-2-dwmw2@infradead.org

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
index e9e88c342f75..1236f25fc8d1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
@@ -242,6 +242,13 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(virtual_mapped)
 	movq	CR0(%r8), %r8
 	movq	%rax, %cr3
 	movq	%r8, %cr0
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
+	/* Saved in save_processor_state. */
+	movq    $saved_context, %rax
+	lgdt    saved_context_gdt_desc(%rax)
+#endif
+
 	movq	%rbp, %rax
 
 	popf


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