Commit e04b8833 authored by Joerg Roedel's avatar Joerg Roedel Committed by Borislav Petkov

x86/head/64: Load GDT after switch to virtual addresses

Load the GDT right after switching to virtual addresses to make sure
there is a defined GDT for exception handling.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907131613.12703-31-joro@8bytes.org
parent 866b556e
......@@ -158,6 +158,14 @@ SYM_CODE_START(secondary_startup_64)
1:
UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY
/*
* We must switch to a new descriptor in kernel space for the GDT
* because soon the kernel won't have access anymore to the userspace
* addresses where we're currently running on. We have to do that here
* because in 32bit we couldn't load a 64bit linear address.
*/
lgdt early_gdt_descr(%rip)
/* Check if nx is implemented */
movl $0x80000001, %eax
cpuid
......@@ -185,14 +193,6 @@ SYM_CODE_START(secondary_startup_64)
pushq $0
popfq
/*
* We must switch to a new descriptor in kernel space for the GDT
* because soon the kernel won't have access anymore to the userspace
* addresses where we're currently running on. We have to do that here
* because in 32bit we couldn't load a 64bit linear address.
*/
lgdt early_gdt_descr(%rip)
/* set up data segments */
xorl %eax,%eax
movl %eax,%ds
......
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