x86/kexec/64: Prevent kexec from 5-level paging to a 4-level only kernel
authorBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Fri, 24 May 2019 07:38:09 +0000 (15:38 +0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 05:14:59 +0000 (07:14 +0200)
commitee338b9ee2822e65a85750da6129946c14962410
tree3c1e8e5ab7c4e1540b4bd5b755523f3d07a614e1
parentf2d08c5d3bcf3f7ef788af122b57a919efa1e9d0
x86/kexec/64: Prevent kexec from 5-level paging to a 4-level only kernel

If the running kernel has 5-level paging activated, the 5-level paging mode
is preserved across kexec. If the kexec'ed kernel does not contain support
for handling active 5-level paging mode in the decompressor, the
decompressor will crash with #GP.

Prevent this situation at load time. If 5-level paging is active, check the
xloadflags whether the kexec kernel can handle 5-level paging at least in
the decompressor. If not, reject the load attempt and print out an error
message.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190524073810.24298-3-bhe@redhat.com
arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c