Ard Biesheuvel 1523291591 x86/decompressor: Avoid the need for a stack in the 32-bit trampoline
commit bd328aa01f upstream.

The 32-bit trampoline no longer uses the stack for anything except
performing a far return back to long mode, and preserving the caller's
stack pointer value. Currently, the trampoline stack is placed in the
same page that carries the trampoline code, which means this page must
be mapped writable and executable, and the stack is therefore executable
as well.

Replace the far return with a far jump, so that the return address can
be pre-calculated and patched into the code before it is called. This
removes the need for a 32-bit addressable stack entirely, and in a later
patch, this will be taken advantage of by removing writable permissions
from (and adding executable permissions to) the trampoline code page
when booting via the EFI stub.

Note that the value of RSP still needs to be preserved explicitly across
the switch into 32-bit mode, as the register may get truncated to 32
bits.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807162720.545787-12-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-03-06 14:45:14 +00:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2024-03-01 13:26:39 +01:00

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