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x86/kexec: Ensure preserve_context flag is set on return to kernel
authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Thu, 9 Jan 2025 14:04:14 +0000 (14:04 +0000)
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:52:47 +0000 (12:52 +0100)
commit4d5f1da98f5e94ecc39d6e7a990db2efe0ae3810
treeb3921df5393f13d355699d6cdba3a08cd1faa33d
parentd144d8a65286fb4a9f06ca80dea6e02e7d846558
x86/kexec: Ensure preserve_context flag is set on return to kernel

The swap_pages() function will only actually *swap*, as its name implies, if
the preserve_context flag in the %r11 register is non-zero. On the way back
from a ::preserve_context kexec, ensure that the %r11 register is non-zero so
that the pages get swapped back.

Fixes: 9e5683e2d0b5 ("x86/kexec: Only swap pages for ::preserve_context mode")
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250109140757.2841269-3-dwmw2@infradead.org
arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S