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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S index c7b238494b31..02c2eff7478d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -295,6 +295,15 @@ system_call_fastpath: * rflags from r11 (but RF and VM bits are forced to 0), * cs and ss are loaded from MSRs. * Restoration of rflags re-enables interrupts. + * + * NB: On AMD CPUs with the X86_BUG_SYSRET_SS_ATTRS bug, the ss + * descriptor is not reinitialized. This means that we should + * avoid SYSRET with SS == NULL, which could happen if we schedule, + * exit the kernel, and re-enter using an interrupt vector. (All + * interrupt entries on x86_64 set SS to NULL.) We prevent that + * from happening by reloading SS in __switch_to. (Actually + * detecting the failure in 64-bit userspace is tricky but can be + * done.) */ USERGS_SYSRET64 |