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Nov 02, 2020

selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Fix GS == 1, 2, and 3 tests · 716572b0

Andy Lutomirski authored Nov 02, 2020

Setting GS to 1, 2, or 3 causes a nonsensical part of the IRET microcode
to change GS back to zero on a return from kernel mode to user mode. The
result is that these tests fail randomly depending on when interrupts
happen. Detect when this happens and let the test pass.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7567fd44a1d60a9424f25b19a998f12149993b0d.1604346596.git.luto@kernel.org

716572b0

selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Fix GS == 1, 2, and 3 tests

Andy Lutomirski authored Nov 02, 2020

Setting GS to 1, 2, or 3 causes a nonsensical part of the IRET microcode
to change GS back to zero on a return from kernel mode to user mode. The
result is that these tests fail randomly depending on when interrupts
happen. Detect when this happens and let the test pass.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7567fd44a1d60a9424f25b19a998f12149993b0d.1604346596.git.luto@kernel.org