Re: [PATCH v11 0/9] Introduce support for guest CET feature

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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 08:51:09AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 04:18:37PM +0800, Yang Weijiang wrote:
> > Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) provides protection against
> > Return/Jump-Oriented Programming (ROP/JOP) attack. It includes two
> > sub-features: Shadow Stack (SHSTK) and Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT).
> > 
> > KVM needs to update to enable guest CET feature.
> > This patchset implements CET related CPUID/XSAVES enumeration, MSRs
> > and vmentry/vmexit configuration etc.so that guest kernel can setup CET
> > runtime infrastructure based on them. Some CET MSRs and related feature
> > flags used reference the definitions in kernel patchset.
> > 
> > CET kernel patches are here:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/5/593
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/5/604
> 
> lkml.org is pretty worthless for this sort of thing, and lkml.kernel.org
> is the preferred link method in general.  The syntax is
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<Message-ID>
> 
> e.g.
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200205181935.3712-1-yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> Note, that will redirect to lore.kernel.org, but the above format is
> preferred because it isn't dependent on binning the thread to a specific
> mailing list.
> 
> Anyways, kernel.org provides a link to download the entire thread in mbox
> format, which allows reviewers to get the prerequisite series without much
> fuss.
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/20200205181935.3712-1-yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx/t.mbox.gz
Thanks Sean for the detailed review!

I completely omitted such kind of consideration, will change it from
next version.




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