From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Richard Relph <richard.relph@amd.com>
Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, libvir-list@redhat.com, "Lendacky,
Thomas" <Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] libvirt/QEMU/SEV interaction
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:34:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170929223152-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <927fedc3-a2c8-d37c-930e-11cecb7b0149@amd.com>
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 02:06:10PM -0500, Richard Relph wrote:
> Whether the "BIOS" is a "static shim" as Michael suggests, or a full BIOS,
> or even a BIOS+kernel+initrd is really not too significant. What is
> significant is that the GO has a basis for trusting all code that is
> imported in to their VM by the CP. And that NONE of the code provided by the
> CP is "unknown" and unauditable by the GO. If the CP has a way to inject
> code unknown to the GO in to the guest VM, the trust model is broken and
> both GO and CP suffer the consequences.
Absolutely.
> When the CP needs to update the BIOS image, they will have to inform the GO
> and allow the GO to establish trust in the CP's new BIOS image somehow.
This GO update on every BIOS change is imho is not a workable model. You
want something like checking the BIOS signature instead. And since
hardware is all hash based, you need the shim to do it in software.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-29 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-08 11:57 [Qemu-devel] libvirt/QEMU/SEV interaction Brijesh Singh
2017-09-08 13:15 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-09-08 13:45 ` Relph, Richard
2017-09-08 14:52 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-09-08 15:48 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-08 15:51 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-09-08 16:10 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-08 16:11 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-10-18 4:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-18 19:18 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-10-19 1:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-20 14:26 ` Richard Relph
2017-09-18 9:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Erik Skultety
2017-09-18 9:47 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-09-18 12:41 ` Richard Relph
2017-09-18 13:51 ` Erik Skultety
2017-09-26 14:36 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-09-27 11:06 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-09-27 13:39 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-27 16:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-09-27 19:06 ` Richard Relph
2017-09-29 19:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2017-09-29 19:48 ` Richard Relph
2017-09-29 20:07 ` Richard Relph
2017-09-29 21:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-01 2:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-10-01 2:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-09-29 21:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-09-29 22:15 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-10-02 9:15 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-10-02 9:11 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-09-29 21:58 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-10-01 0:09 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-10-01 9:17 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-10-01 9:56 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-10-03 16:03 ` Brijesh Singh
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