Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:26:02 +0000 (09:26 -0300)
committer
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:02:35 +0000 (10:02 +0200)
Some cloud hypervisors do not provide IBPB on very recent CPU processors,
including AMD processors affected by Retbleed.
Using IBPB before firmware calls on such systems would cause a GPF at boot
like the one below. Do not enable such calls when IBPB support is not
present.