cpu-features: Ignore CET SS unless actively used #804
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Since #791 we are ensuring a proper call-ret discipline in the x86 interceptor, if we detect that the CPU is compatible with Intel CET shadow stacks. As discussed in #791, this has an unnecessary performance cost if the mitigation is not used by the current process. This extra patch thus ignores CET shadow stacks compatibility on Windows if we detect that the current process is not using the mitigation. It might be cleaner to move this code outside
gum_do_query_cpu_features
, but putting it there makes the patch very simple and atomic.