On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 11:18 AM Joerg Roedel <j...@8bytes.org> wrote: > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 09:58:18AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:28 AM Joerg Roedel <j...@8bytes.org> wrote: > > > The proper fix would be to initialize MSR_GS_BASE earlier. > > That'll mean to initialize it two times during boot, as the first C > function with stack-protection is called before the kernel switches to > its high addresses (early_idt_setup call-path). But okay, I can do that.
Good point. Since this is boot code which isn't subject to stack smashing attacks, disabling stack protector is probably the simpler option. -- Brian Gerst
