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KVM: x86: Disable support for Shadow Stacks if TDP is disabled
authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:32:33 +0000 (15:32 -0700)
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:19:29 +0000 (09:19 -0700)
commit1f6f68fcfe43cf26fc0a98fe14e0454cc5c75416
treecf995fa756c7eb21d3b607f757a4f5dfe9c81d1e
parent69cc3e886582891f9c4d5830f18a2664a7f7cf7c
KVM: x86: Disable support for Shadow Stacks if TDP is disabled

Make TDP a hard requirement for Shadow Stacks, as there are no plans to
add Shadow Stack support to the Shadow MMU.  E.g. KVM hasn't been taught
to understand the magic Writable=0,Dirty=1 combination that is required
for Shadow Stack accesses, and so enabling Shadow Stacks when using
shadow paging will put the guest into an infinite #PF loop (KVM thinks the
shadow page tables have a valid mapping, hardware says otherwise).

Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919223258.1604852-27-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c