x86/hyperv: Disable IBT when hypercall page lacks ENDBR instruction

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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@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1690001476-98594-1-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>

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Michael Kelley 2023-07-21 21:51:16 -07:00 • committed by Wei Liu

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