Re: FSGSBASE causing panic on 5.9-rc1

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Aug 20 2020 - 09:47:41 EST


On 19/08/20 23:25, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, current->thread.gsbase);
> load_gs_index(svm->host.gs);
>
> Surely that should do load_gs_index() *before* wrmsrl(). But that's
> not the problem at hand.

The wrmsrl is writing the inactive GS base so the ordering between
load_gs_index and wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE) should be irrelevant?

Paolo