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Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack

From Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack
Date 2016-03-02 17:20 +0100
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On 02.03.2016 13:20, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>
> 04633df0c43d ("x86/cpu: Call verify_cpu() after having entered long mode too")
> added the call to verify_cpu() for sanitizing CPU configuration.
>
> The latter uses the stack minimally and it can happen that we land in
> startup_64() directly from a 64-bit bootloader. Then we want to use our
> own, known good stack.
>
> Do that.
>
> APs don't need this as the trampoline sets up a stack for them.
>
> Reported-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
> index 22fbf9df61bb..d60a044c2fdc 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
> @@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ startup_64:
>  	 * tables and then reload them.
>  	 */
>  
> +	/* Setup a stack for verify_cpu */
> +	movq    stack_start - __START_KERNEL_map, %rsp
> +	subq	$__START_KERNEL_map, %rsp
> +

 
You subtract __START_KERNEL_map twice ?

--Mika

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[RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 12:30 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 17:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> - 2016-03-02 17:40 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 18:00 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> - 2016-03-02 18:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> - 2016-03-02 17:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 17:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 19:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 19:20 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 19:30 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 19:40 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 21:00 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 21:50 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 22:40 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 22:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 23:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 23:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 23:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 23:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 23:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-03-03 01:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-03-03 02:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-03-03 04:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-03 13:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-03 16:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-03 17:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-03 21:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-03 22:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-03 22:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-03 22:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-03-04 02:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-03-04 03:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 23:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 17:30 +0100

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