From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] KVM: SVM: Don't intercept #GP for SEV guests
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:55:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YemT7p826ZF4OLu7@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61dcbb64-2f2a-175a-e207-79398e80184c@oracle.com>
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, Liam Merwick wrote:
> On 20/01/2022 01:07, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Never intercept #GP for SEV guests as reading SEV guest private memory
> > will return cyphertext, i.e. emulating on #GP can't work as intended.
> >
>
> "ciphertext" seems to be the convention.
Huh, indeed it does seem to be way more common, and cipher is the proper root.
Stupid English, why can't we have encrypt+cypher or encript+cipher?
Thanks! I'll get these fixed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-20 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-20 1:07 [PATCH 0/9] KVM: SVM: Fix and clean up "can emulate" mess Sean Christopherson
2022-01-20 1:07 ` [PATCH 1/9] KVM: SVM: Never reject emulation due to SMAP errata for !SEV guests Sean Christopherson
2022-01-20 14:16 ` Liam Merwick
2022-01-20 1:07 ` [PATCH 2/9] Revert "KVM: SVM: avoid infinite loop on NPF from bad address" Sean Christopherson
2022-01-20 14:17 ` Liam Merwick
2022-01-20 1:07 ` [PATCH 3/9] KVM: SVM: Don't intercept #GP for SEV guests Sean Christopherson
2022-01-20 14:30 ` Liam Merwick
2022-01-20 16:55 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2022-01-20 1:07 ` [PATCH 4/9] KVM: SVM: Explicitly require DECODEASSISTS to enable SEV support Sean Christopherson
2022-01-20 14:32 ` Liam Merwick
2022-01-20 1:07 ` [PATCH 5/9] KVM: x86: Pass emulation type to can_emulate_instruction() Sean Christopherson
2022-01-20 14:38 ` Liam Merwick
2022-01-20 1:07 ` [PATCH 6/9] KVM: SVM: WARN if KVM attempts emulation on #UD or #GP for SEV guests Sean Christopherson
2022-01-20 15:44 ` Liam Merwick
2022-01-20 17:04 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-01-25 14:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-01-20 1:07 ` [PATCH 7/9] KVM: SVM: Inject #UD on attempted emulation for SEV guest w/o insn buffer Sean Christopherson
2022-01-20 16:11 ` Liam Merwick
2022-01-20 1:07 ` [PATCH 8/9] KVM: SVM: Don't apply SEV+SMAP workaround on code fetch or PT access Sean Christopherson
2022-01-20 16:37 ` Liam Merwick
2022-01-20 1:07 ` [PATCH 9/9] KVM: SVM: Don't kill SEV guest if SMAP erratum triggers in usermode Sean Christopherson
2022-01-20 16:46 ` Liam Merwick
2022-01-20 16:58 ` [PATCH 0/9] KVM: SVM: Fix and clean up "can emulate" mess Liam Merwick
2022-01-21 8:30 ` Liam Merwick
2022-01-25 14:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
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