Commit e57a81c4 authored by David Woodhouse's avatar David Woodhouse Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/amd: don't set X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS when running under Xen

commit def9331a upstream

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: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMatt Helsley (VMware) <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBo Gan <ganb@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 237a1870
......@@ -791,7 +791,8 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_3DNOW) || cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_LM))
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_3DNOWPREFETCH);
/* AMD CPUs don't reset SS attributes on SYSRET */
/* AMD CPUs don't reset SS attributes on SYSRET, Xen does. */
if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_XENPV))
set_cpu_bug(c, X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS);
}
......
......@@ -462,10 +462,8 @@ 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)
......
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