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When running with return thunks enabled under 32-bit EFI, the system
crashes with:

  kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000005bc02900
  #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0011) - permissions violation
  PGD 18f7063 P4D 18f7063 PUD 18ff063 PMD 190e063 PTE 800000005bc02063
  Oops: 0011 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc6+ #166
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:0x5bc02900
  Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0x5bc028d6.
  RSP: 0018:ffffffffb3203e10 EFLAGS: 00010046
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000048
  RDX: 000000000190dfac RSI: 0000000000001710 RDI: 000000007eae823b
  RBP: ffffffffb3203e70 R08: 0000000001970000 R09: ffffffffb3203e28
  R10: 747563657865206c R11: 6c6977203a696665 R12: 0000000000001710
  R13: 0000000000000030 R14: 0000000001970000 R15: 0000000000000001
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8e013ca00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 000000005bc02900 CR3: 0000000001930000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Call Trace:
   ? efi_set_virtual_address_map+0x9c/0x175
   efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x4a6/0x53e
   start_kernel+0x67c/0x71e
   x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x2a
   x86_64_start_kernel+0xe9/0xf4
   secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe5/0xeb

That's because it cannot jump to the return thunk from the 32-bit code.

Using a naked RET and marking it as safe allows the system to proceed
booting.

Fixes: aa3d480 ("x86: Use return-thunk in asm code")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo authored and gregkh committed Jul 23, 2022
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_thunk_64.S
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#include <linux/objtool.h>
#include <asm/page_types.h>
#include <asm/segment.h>
#include <asm/nospec-branch.h>

.text
.code64
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1: movq 0x20(%rsp), %rsp
pop %rbx
pop %rbp
RET
ANNOTATE_UNRET_SAFE
ret
int3

.code32
2: pushl $__KERNEL_CS
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