From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kees Cook Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 27/75] x86/idt: Move IDT to data segment Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:25:58 -0700 Message-ID: <202007141825.7A90799@keescook> References: <20200714120917.11253-1-joro@8bytes.org> <20200714120917.11253-28-joro@8bytes.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200714120917.11253-28-joro@8bytes.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Joerg Roedel Cc: x86@kernel.org, Joerg Roedel , hpa@zytor.com, Andy Lutomirski , Dave Hansen , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Slaby , Dan Williams , Tom Lendacky , Juergen Gross , David Rientjes , Cfir Cohen , Erdem Aktas , Masami Hiramatsu , Mike Stunes , Sean Christopherson , Martin Radev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 02:08:29PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: > From: Joerg Roedel > > With SEV-ES, exception handling is needed very early, even before the > kernel has cleared the bss segment. In order to prevent clearing the > currently used IDT, move the IDT to the data segment. > > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel Reviewed-by: Kees Cook -- Kees Cook