Re: [PATCH v10 24/27] KVM: x86: Enable CET virtualization for VMX and advertise to userspace

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On Mon, May 06, 2024, Rick P Edgecombe wrote:
> I don't immediately see what trouble will be in giving kernel IBT a disable
> parameter that doesn't touch X86_FEATURE_IBT at some point in the future.

Keeping X86_FEATURE_IBT set will result in "ibt" being reported in /proc/cpuinfo,
i.e. will mislead userspace into thinking IBT is supported and fully enabled by
the kernel.  For a security feature, that's a pretty big issue.

To fudge around that, we could add a synthetic feature flag to let the kernel
tell KVM whether or not it's safe to virtualize IBT, but I don't see what value
that adds over KVM checking raw host CPUID.




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