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The kernel switches to a new set of page tables during kexec. The global
mappings (_PAGE_GLOBAL==1) can remain in the TLB after this switch. This
is generally not a problem because the new page tables use a different
portion of the virtual address space than the normal kernel mappings.
The critical exception to that generalisation (and the only mapping
which isn't an identity mapping) is the kexec control page itself —
which was ROX in the original kernel mapping, but should be RWX in the
new page tables. If there is a global TLB entry for that in its prior
read-only state, it definitely needs to be flushed before attempting to
write through that virtual mapping.
It would be possible to just avoid writing to the virtual address of the
page and defer all writes until they can be done through the identity
mapping. But there's no good reason to keep the old TLB entries around,
as they can cause nothing but trouble.
Clear the PGE bit in %cr4 early, before storing data in the control page.
Fixes: 5a82223e07 ("x86/kexec: Mark relocate_kernel page as ROX instead of RWX")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219592
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: "Ning, Hongyu" <hongyu.ning@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: "Ning, Hongyu" <hongyu.ning@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250109140757.2841269-2-dwmw2@infradead.org
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