Re: [PATCH Part2 v5 00/45] Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Hypervisor Support

Dave Hansen
2021-11-24T17:48:22Z

On 11/24/21 8:03 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 02:51:35PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> My preference would be that we never have SEV-SNP code in the kernel
>> that can panic() the host from guest userspace. If that means waiting
>> until there's common guest unmapping infrastructure around, then I think
>> we should wait.
> Can you elaborate how to crash host kernel from guest user-space? If I
> understood correctly it was about crashing host kernel from _host_
> user-space.

Sorry, I misspoke there.

My concern is about crashing the host kernel. It appears that *host*
userspace can do that quite easily by inducing the host kernel to access
some guest private memory via a kernel mapping.

> I think the RMP-fault path in the page-fault handler needs to take the
> uaccess exception tables into account before actually causing a panic.
> This should solve most of the problems discussed here.

That covers things like copy_from_user(). It does not account for
things where kernel mappings are used, like where a
get_user_pages()/kmap() is in play.