Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86/bugs: Move the X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB check into callers

Sean Christopherson
2025-02-25T19:47:55Z

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> index 6c56d5235f0f3..729a8ee24037b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> @@ -1478,7 +1478,8 @@ void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu,
> * may switch the active VMCS multiple times).
> */
> if (!buddy || WARN_ON_ONCE(buddy->vmcs != prev))
> - indirect_branch_prediction_barrier();
> + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB))

Combine this into a single if-statement, to make it readable and because as-is
the outer if would need curly braces.

And since this check will stay around in the form of a static_branch, I vote to
check it first so that the checks on "buddy" are elided if vcpu_load_ibpb is disabled.
That'll mean the WARN_ON_ONCE() won't fire if we have a bug and someone is running
with mitigations disabled, but I'm a-ok with that.