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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/29] x86: Kernel IBT
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 01:29:45AM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-02-18 at 17:49 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > This is an (almost!) complete Kernel IBT implementation. It's been
> > self-hosting
> > for a few days now. That is, it runs on IBT enabled hardware
> > (Tigerlake) and is
> > capable of building the next kernel.
> >
> > It is also almost clean on allmodconfig using GCC-11.2.
> >
> > The biggest TODO item at this point is Clang, I've not yet looked at
> > that.
>
> Do you need to turn this off before kexec?

Probably... :-) I've never looked at that code though; so I'm not
exactly sure where to put things.

I'm assuming kexec does a hot-unplug of all but the boot-cpu which then
leaves only a single CPU with state in machine_kexec() ? Does the below
look reasonable?

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -638,6 +638,12 @@ static __always_inline void setup_cet(st
}
}

+void cet_disable(void)
+{
+ cr4_clear_bits(X86_CR4_CET);
+ wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_S_CET, 0);
+}
+
/*
* Some CPU features depend on higher CPUID levels, which may not always
* be available due to CPUID level capping or broken virtualization
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h
index 33d41e350c79..cf26356db53e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h
@@ -72,4 +72,7 @@ void init_ia32_feat_ctl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
#else
static inline void init_ia32_feat_ctl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) {}
#endif
+
+extern void cet_disable(void);
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_CPU_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index f5da4a18070a..29a2a1732605 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
/* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */
local_irq_disable();
hw_breakpoint_disable();
+ cet_disable();

if (image->preserve_context) {
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
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