linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v15 03/26] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce CET MSR XSAVES supervisor states

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Message-ID: <87f6309f-d5b4-a66f-99a1-d96a655290b6@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 1 Dec 2020 14:35:18 -0800
From:   "Yu, Yu-cheng" <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 03/26] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce CET MSR XSAVES
 supervisor states

On 12/1/2020 2:26 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 11/30/20 3:16 PM, Yu, Yu-cheng wrote:
>>>
>>> Do we have any other spots in the kernel where we care about:
>>>
>>>      boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK) ||
>>>      boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBT)
>>>
>>> ?  If so, we could also address this by declaring a software-defined
>>> X86_FEATURE_CET and then setting it if SHSTK||IBT is supported, then we
>>> just put that one feature in xsave_cpuid_features[].
>>>
>>
>> These features have different CPUIDs but are complementary parts.  I
>> don't know if someday there will be shadow-stack-only CPUs, but an
>> IBT-only CPU is weird.  What if the kernel checks that the CPU has both
>> features and presents only one feature flag (X86_FEATURE_CET), no
>> X86_FEATURE_SHSTK or X86_FEATURE_IBT?
> 
> Logically, that's probably fine.  But, X86_FEATURE_IBT/SHSTK are in a
> non-scattered leaf, so we'll kinda define them whether we like it or
> not.  We'd have to go out of our way to *not* define them.
> 

After more thoughts, I think it is better to just add X86_FEATURE_CET 
and not more.  We cannot predict what is going to happen later.
So, like what you suggested, X86_FEATURE_CET means (X86_FEATURE_SHSTK | 
X86_FEATURE_IBT).

Thanks,
Yu-cheng