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x86/ibt: Keep IBT disabled during alternative patching
cfi_rewrite_callers() updates the fineIBT hash matching at the caller side,
but except for paranoid-mode it relies on apply_retpoline() and friends for
any ENDBR relocation. This could temporarily cause an indirect branch to
land on a poisoned ENDBR.
For instance, with para-virtualization enabled, a simple wrmsrl() could
have an indirect branch pointing to native_write_msr() who's ENDBR has been
relocated due to fineIBT:
<wrmsrl>:
push %rbp
mov %rsp,%rbp
mov %esi,%eax
mov %rsi,%rdx
shr $0x20,%rdx
mov %edi,%edi
mov %rax,%rsi
call *0x21e65d0(%rip) # <pv_ops+0xb8>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Such an indirect call during the alternative patching could #CP if the
caller is not *yet* adjusted for the new target ENDBR. To prevent a false
#CP, keep CET-IBT disabled until all callers are patched.
Patching during the module load does not need to be guarded by IBT-disable
because the module code is not executed until the patching is complete.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <[email protected]>
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