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| author | Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> | 2018-05-30 13:09:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-06-06 16:44:34 +0200 |
| commit | c43b4ff972a986c85bdd8dc1aa05fe23b29ef99c (patch) | |
| tree | 82396376dd80b9e2a642ef5dd03d69bb8a2bb3ff /arch/x86/xen | |
| parent | bb70de1f993b5a7fffe9d42c68907b60ef5319a6 (diff) | |
x86/amd: don't set X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS when running under Xen
Upstream commit: def9331a12977770cc6132d79f8e6565871e8e38 ("x86/amd:
don't set X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS when running under Xen")
When running as Xen pv guest X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS must not be set
on AMD cpus.
This bug/feature bit is kind of special as it will be used very early
when switching threads. Setting the bit and clearing it a little bit
later leaves a critical window where things can go wrong. This time
window has enlarged a little bit by using setup_clear_cpu_cap() instead
of the hypervisor's set_cpu_features callback. It seems this larger
window now makes it rather easy to hit the problem.
The proper solution is to never set the bit in case of Xen.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/xen')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c index 27f461fe4f29..2986a13b9786 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c @@ -474,10 +474,8 @@ static void __init xen_init_cpuid_mask(void) static void __init xen_init_capabilities(void) { - if (xen_pv_domain()) { - setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS); + if (xen_pv_domain()) setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XENPV); - } } static void xen_set_debugreg(int reg, unsigned long val) |