x86/fsgsbase: Make SHADOW_GS accesses safe under FRED

Under FRED, the SWAPGS instruction is disallowed.  Therefore we must use the
MSR path instead.

read_registers() is in the show_registers() path, so this change allows Xen to
render it's current state without suffering #UD (and recursing until the stack
guard page is hit).

All hardware with FRED is expected to have some kind of non-serialising access
to these registers.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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Andrew Cooper committed 2026-02-14 01:01:33 +00:00
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@@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ static inline unsigned long read_gs_base(void)
static inline unsigned long read_gs_shadow(void)
{
if ( read_cr4() & X86_CR4_FSGSBASE )
unsigned long cr4 = read_cr4();
if ( !(cr4 & X86_CR4_FRED) && (cr4 & X86_CR4_FSGSBASE) )
return __rdgs_shadow();
else
return rdmsr(MSR_SHADOW_GS_BASE);
@@ -103,7 +105,9 @@ static inline void write_gs_base(unsigned long base)
static inline void write_gs_shadow(unsigned long base)
{
if ( read_cr4() & X86_CR4_FSGSBASE )
unsigned long cr4 = read_cr4();
if ( !(cr4 & X86_CR4_FRED) && (cr4 & X86_CR4_FSGSBASE) )
__wrgs_shadow(base);
else
wrmsrns(MSR_SHADOW_GS_BASE, base);
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@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static void read_registers(struct extra_state *state)
* invalidate the read_cr4() address calculation (really cpu_info->cr4
* under the hood), forcing the cr4 check to be re-evaluated every time.
*/
if ( state->cr4 & X86_CR4_FSGSBASE )
if ( !(state->cr4 & X86_CR4_FRED) && (state->cr4 & X86_CR4_FSGSBASE) )
{
state->fsb = __rdfsbase();
state->gsb = __rdgsbase();
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