Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] x86/hyperv: Disable IBT when hypercall page lacks ENDBR instruction

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On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 09:51:16PM -0700, Michael Kelley wrote:
> On hardware that supports Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT), Hyper-V VMs
> with ConfigVersion 9.3 or later support IBT in the guest. However,
> current versions of Hyper-V have a bug in that there's not an ENDBR64
> instruction at the beginning of the hypercall page. Since hypercalls are
> made with an indirect call to the hypercall page, all hypercall attempts
> fail with an exception and Linux panics.
> 
> A Hyper-V fix is in progress to add ENDBR64. But guard against the Linux
> panic by clearing X86_FEATURE_IBT if the hypercall page doesn't start
> with ENDBR. The VM will boot and run without IBT.
> 
> If future Linux 32-bit kernels were to support IBT, additional hypercall
> page hackery would be needed to make IBT work for such kernels in a
> Hyper-V VM.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to hyperv-fixes. Thanks.



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