From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@kernel.org>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] KVM: SEV: Don't advertise unusable VM types
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:12:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aeJNdXPDHSJCZM0m@tycho.pizza> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260416232329.3408497-1-seanjc@google.com>
On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 04:23:22PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> My preference would be to take this through the KVM tree, with acks on the
> crypto patches. I'd also be a-ok with a stable branch/tag of the crypto
> changes.
>
> In the words of Tycho:
>
> Recent SEV firmware [1] does not support SEV-ES VMs when SNP is enabled.
> Expose this by revoking VM-types that are not supported by the current
> configurations either from firmware restrictions or ASID configuration.
>
> My previous version of this patch series [2] used SNP_VERIFY_MITIGATION
> to test for a mitigation bit. While AMD-SB-3023 says that there is a
> mitigation bit (3) for CVE-2025-48514, bit 3 corresponds to an unrelated
> issue. The correct way to check for this is to use the SVN/SPL from the
> TCB. We are in the process of updating the SB to reflect this.
I re-ran my matrix of firmware tests:
Tested-by: Tycho Andersen (AMD) <tycho@kernel.org>
Thanks for cleaning this up.
Tycho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-17 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-16 23:23 [PATCH v3 0/7] KVM: SEV: Don't advertise unusable VM types Sean Christopherson
2026-04-16 23:23 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] crypto/ccp: hoist kernel part of SNP_PLATFORM_STATUS Sean Christopherson
2026-04-17 13:48 ` Tom Lendacky
2026-04-18 13:13 ` Herbert Xu
2026-04-16 23:23 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] crypto/ccp: export firmware supported vm types Sean Christopherson
2026-04-17 14:12 ` Tom Lendacky
2026-04-18 13:13 ` Herbert Xu
2026-04-16 23:23 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] KVM: SEV: Set supported SEV+ VM types during sev_hardware_setup() Sean Christopherson
2026-04-17 14:24 ` Tom Lendacky
2026-04-16 23:23 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] KVM: SEV: Consolidate logic for printing state of SEV{,-ES,-SNP} enabling Sean Christopherson
2026-04-17 14:34 ` Tom Lendacky
2026-04-16 23:23 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] KVM: SEV: Don't advertise support for unusable VM types Sean Christopherson
2026-04-17 14:37 ` Tom Lendacky
2026-04-16 23:23 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] KVM: SEV: Don't advertise VM types that are disabled by firmware Sean Christopherson
2026-04-17 14:39 ` Tom Lendacky
2026-04-16 23:23 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] KVM: selftests: Teach sev_*_test about revoking VM types Sean Christopherson
2026-04-17 15:12 ` Tycho Andersen [this message]
2026-05-19 0:41 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] KVM: SEV: Don't advertise unusable " Sean Christopherson
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