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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] x86/kexec: Restore GDT on return from ::preserve_context" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 07fa619f2a40c221ea27747a3323cabc59ab25eb
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2024121048-dreamlike-devourer-7135@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 07fa619f2a40c221ea27747a3323cabc59ab25eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 15:05:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] x86/kexec: Restore GDT on return from ::preserve_context
kexec

The restore_processor_state() function explicitly states that "the asm code that gets us here will have restored a usable GDT". That wasn't true in the case of returning from a ::preserve_context kexec. Make it so.

Without this, the kernel was depending on the called function to reload a GDT which is appropriate for the kernel before returning.

Test program:

#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <sys/reboot.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>

int main (void)

 {
        struct kexec_segment segment = {};
	unsigned char purgatory[] = {
		0x66, 0xba, 0xf8, 0x03,	// mov $0x3f8, %dx
		0xb0, 0x42,		// mov $0x42, %al
		0xee,			// outb %al, (%dx)
		0xc3,			// ret
	};
	int ret;

	segment.buf = &purgatory;
	segment.bufsz = sizeof(purgatory);
	segment.mem = (void *)0x400000;
	segment.memsz = 0x1000;
	ret = syscall(__NR_kexec_load, 0x400000, 1, &segment, KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT);
	if (ret) {
		perror("kexec_load");
		exit(1);
	}

	ret = syscall(__NR_reboot, LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1, LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC2, LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC);
	if (ret) {
		perror("kexec reboot");
		exit(1);
	}
	printf("Success\n");
	return 0;

}

arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S +7 -0
index e9e88c342f75..1236f25fc8d1 100644
@@ -242,6 +242,13 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(virtual_mapped)
 	movq	CR0(%r8), %r8
 	movq	%rax, %cr3
 	movq	%r8, %cr0
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
+	/* Saved in save_processor_state. */
+	movq    $saved_context, %rax
+	lgdt    saved_context_gdt_desc(%rax)
+#endif
+
 	movq	%rbp, %rax
 
 	popf