linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v28 04/32] x86/cpufeatures: Introduce CPU setup and option parsing for CET

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Message-ID: <YRFSg45dDMfeiGbt@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 9 Aug 2021 18:06:27 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v28 04/32] x86/cpufeatures: Introduce CPU setup and
 option parsing for CET

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 01:51:51PM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
>  /*
>   * Some CPU features depend on higher CPUID levels, which may not always
>   * be available due to CPUID level capping or broken virtualization
> @@ -1249,6 +1257,11 @@ static void __init cpu_parse_early_param(void)
>  	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "noxsaves"))
>  		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES);
>  
> +	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "no_user_shstk"))
> +		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK);
> +	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "no_user_ibt"))
> +		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_IBT);

Patch 1 says:

"Disabling shadow stack also disables IBT."

I don't see that here.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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