Re: [PATCH v11 00/23] Enable CET Virtualization

[Mathias Krause]

On 04.07.25 10:49, Chao Gao wrote:
> The FPU support for CET virtualization has already been merged into the tip
> tree. This v11 adds Intel CET virtualization in KVM and is based on
> tip/master plus Sean's MSR cleanups. For your convenience, it is also
> available at
> 
>   https://github.com/gaochaointel/linux-dev cet-v11
> 
> Changes in v11 (Most changes are suggested by Sean. Thanks!):
> 1. Rebased onto the latest tip tree + Sean's MSR cleanups
> 2. Made patch 1's shortlog informative and accurate
> 3. Slotted in two cleanup patches from Sean (patch 3/4)
> 4. Used KVM_GET/SET_ONE_REG ioctl for userspace to read/write SSP.
>    still assigned a KVM-defined MSR index for SSP but the index isn't
>    part of uAPI now.
> 5. Used KVM_MSR_RET_UNSUPPORTED to reject accesses to unsupported CET MSRs
> 6. Synthesized triple-fault when reading/writing SSP failed during
>    entering into SMM or exiting from SMM
> 7. Removed an inappropriate "quirk" in v10 that advertised IBT to userspace
>    when the hardware supports it but the host does not enable it.
> 8. Disabled IBT/SHSTK explicitly for SVM to avoid them being enabled on
>    AMD CPU accidentally before AMD CET series lands. Because IBT/SHSTK are
>    advertised in KVM x86 common code but only Intel support is added by
>    this series.
> 9. Re-ordered "Don't emulate branch instructions" (patch 18) before
>    advertising CET support to userspace.
> 10.Added consistency checks for CR4.CET and other CET MSRs during VM-entry
>    (patches 22-23)
> 
> [...]

I tested this with your work-in-progress QEMU support branch from [1]
and it worked well on my Alder Lake NUC (i7-1260P).

The host kernel has IBT and user shadow stacks enabled, so does the
guest kernel. KUT CET tests[2] ran fine on the host as well as in the
guest, i.e. nested works too.

Therefore,

Tested-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[1] https://github.com/gaochaointel/qemu-dev#qemu-cet
[2]
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250626073459.12990-1-minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Thanks,
Mathias