Re: [PATCH] x86: Enable IBT in Rust if enabled in C

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 08:38:58AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 1:13 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 10:42:54PM +0000, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> > > These flags are not made conditional on compiler support because at the
> > > moment exactly one version of rustc supported, and that one supports
> > > these flags.
> > >
> > > Building without these additional flags will manifest as objtool
> > > printing a large number of errors about missing ENDBR and if CFI is
> > > enabled (not currently possible) will result in incorrectly structured
> > > function prefixes.
> >
> > Well, I would also imagine running it on actual IBT enabled hardware
> > will get you a non-booting kernel.
> 
> Do you know what machine type in QEMU first supports IBT?

I'm not sure QEMU has IBT support at all atm -- the whole CET
virtualization stuff is a bit of a mess.

But hardware wise it's Tigerlake (11) and everything after that - so
Alderlake (12) and Saphire Rapids (4th gen scalable -- or somesuch
nonsense).