x86/fred: Disallow the swapgs instruction when FRED is enabled
SWAPGS is no longer needed thus NOT allowed with FRED because FRED transitions ensure that an operating system can _always_ operate with its own GS base address: - For events that occur in ring 3, FRED event delivery swaps the GS base address with the IA32_KERNEL_GS_BASE MSR. - ERETU (the FRED transition that returns to ring 3) also swaps the GS base address with the IA32_KERNEL_GS_BASE MSR. And the operating system can still setup the GS segment for a user thread without the need of loading a user thread GS with: - Using LKGS, available with FRED, to modify other attributes of the GS segment without compromising its ability always to operate with its own GS base address. - Accessing the GS segment base address for a user thread as before using RDMSR or WRMSR on the IA32_KERNEL_GS_BASE MSR. Note, LKGS loads the GS base address into the IA32_KERNEL_GS_BASE MSR instead of the GS segment's descriptor cache. As such, the operating system never changes its runtime GS base address. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Tested-by: Shan Kang <shan.kang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231205105030.8698-19-xin3.li@intel.com
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