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x86/kexec: Push kjump return address even for non-kjump kexec
authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:59:52 +0000 (21:59 +0100)
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Fri, 8 May 2026 15:00:12 +0000 (17:00 +0200)
The version of purgatory code shipped by kexec-tools attempts to look above
the top of its stack to find a return address for a kjump, even in a non-kjump
kexec.

After the commit in Fixes: the word above the stack might not be there,
leading to a fault (which is at least now caught by my exception-handling code
in kexec).

That commit fixed things for the actual kjump path, but no longer
"gratuitously" pushes the unused return address to the stack in the non-kjump
path. Put that *back* in the non-kjump path, to prevent purgatory from
crashing when trying to access it.

Fixes: 2cacf7f23a02 ("x86/kexec: Fix stack and handling of re-entry point for ::preserve_context")
Reported-by: Rohan Kakulawaram <rohanka@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Rohan Kakulawaram <rohanka@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/32d627134143ffd957891cb697138e839c623211.camel@infradead.org
arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S

index 4ffba68dc57b296923f5905d53c1c72a0b98046e..eaeb77464c066e82350a7e4d4cd2c83f15d9dc19 100644 (file)
@@ -136,6 +136,14 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(identity_mapped)
         * %r13 original CR4 when relocate_kernel() was invoked
         */
 
+       /*
+        * Set return address to 0 if not preserving context. The purgatory
+        * shipped in kexec-tools will unconditionally look for the return
+        * address on the stack and set a kexec_jump_back_entry= command
+        * line option if it's non-zero. There's no other way that it can
+        * tell a preserve-context (kjump) kexec from a normal one.
+        */
+       pushq   $0
        /* store the start address on the stack */
        pushq   %rdx