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authorYang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@intel.com>2025-09-19 15:32:19 -0700
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2025-09-23 09:00:49 -0700
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KVM: VMX: Introduce CET VMCS fields and control bits
Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) is a kind of CPU feature used to prevent Return/CALL/Jump-Oriented Programming (ROP/COP/JOP) attacks. It provides two sub-features(SHSTK,IBT) to defend against ROP/COP/JOP style control-flow subversion attacks. Shadow Stack (SHSTK): A shadow stack is a second stack used exclusively for control transfer operations. The shadow stack is separate from the data/normal stack and can be enabled individually in user and kernel mode. When shadow stack is enabled, CALL pushes the return address on both the data and shadow stack. RET pops the return address from both stacks and compares them. If the return addresses from the two stacks do not match, the processor generates a #CP. Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT): IBT introduces instruction(ENDBRANCH)to mark valid target addresses of indirect branches (CALL, JMP etc...). If an indirect branch is executed and the next instruction is _not_ an ENDBRANCH, the processor generates a #CP. These instruction behaves as a NOP on platforms that have no CET. Several new CET MSRs are defined to support CET: MSR_IA32_{U,S}_CET: CET settings for {user,supervisor} CET respectively. MSR_IA32_PL{0,1,2,3}_SSP: SHSTK pointer linear address for CPL{0,1,2,3}. MSR_IA32_INT_SSP_TAB: Linear address of SHSTK pointer table, whose entry is indexed by IST of interrupt gate desc. Two XSAVES state bits are introduced for CET: IA32_XSS:[bit 11]: Control saving/restoring user mode CET states IA32_XSS:[bit 12]: Control saving/restoring supervisor mode CET states. Six VMCS fields are introduced for CET: {HOST,GUEST}_S_CET: Stores CET settings for kernel mode. {HOST,GUEST}_SSP: Stores current active SSP. {HOST,GUEST}_INTR_SSP_TABLE: Stores current active MSR_IA32_INT_SSP_TAB. On Intel platforms, two additional bits are defined in VM_EXIT and VM_ENTRY control fields: If VM_EXIT_LOAD_CET_STATE = 1, host CET states are loaded from following VMCS fields at VM-Exit: HOST_S_CET HOST_SSP HOST_INTR_SSP_TABLE If VM_ENTRY_LOAD_CET_STATE = 1, guest CET states are loaded from following VMCS fields at VM-Entry: GUEST_S_CET GUEST_SSP GUEST_INTR_SSP_TABLE Co-developed-by: Zhang Yi Z <yi.z.zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Z <yi.z.zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net> Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com> Tested-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919223258.1604852-13-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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