Re: [PATCH v5 7/7] crypto: ccp: Move SEV/SNP Platform initialization to KVM

Tom Lendacky
2025-03-03T15:35:56Z

On 2/25/25 15:02, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
>
> SNP initialization is forced during PSP driver probe purely because SNP
> can't be initialized if VMs are running. But the only in-tree user of
> SEV/SNP functionality is KVM, and KVM depends on PSP driver for the same.
> Forcing SEV/SNP initialization because a hypervisor could be running
> legacy non-confidential VMs make no sense.
>
> This patch removes SEV/SNP initialization from the PSP driver probe
> time and moves the requirement to initialize SEV/SNP functionality
> to KVM if it wants to use SEV/SNP.
>
> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 16 ----------------
> 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
> index cde6ebab589d..42988d757665 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
> @@ -1345,10 +1345,6 @@ static int _sev_platform_init_locked(struct sev_platform_init_args *args)
> if (sev->state == SEV_STATE_INIT)
> return 0;
>
> - /*
> - * Legacy guests cannot be running while SNP_INIT(_EX) is executing,
> - * so perform SEV-SNP initialization at probe time.
> - */
> rc = __sev_snp_init_locked(&args->error);
> if (rc && rc != -ENODEV) {
> /*
> @@ -2516,9 +2512,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sev_issue_cmd_external_user);
> void sev_pci_init(void)
> {
> struct sev_device *sev = psp_master->sev_data;
> - struct sev_platform_init_args args = {0};
> u8 api_major, api_minor, build;
> - int rc;
>
> if (!sev)
> return;
> @@ -2541,16 +2535,6 @@ void sev_pci_init(void)
> api_major, api_minor, build,
> sev->api_major, sev->api_minor, sev->build);
>
> - /* Initialize the platform */
> - args.probe = true;
> - rc = sev_platform_init(&args);
> - if (rc)
> - dev_err(sev->dev, "SEV: failed to INIT error %#x, rc %d\n",
> - args.error, rc);
> -
> - dev_info(sev->dev, "SEV%s API:%d.%d build:%d\n", sev->snp_initialized ?
> - "-SNP" : "", sev->api_major, sev->api_minor, sev->build);

Should this dev_info() have been removed in patch #1? Because it looks
like this would have been a duplicate message after the first patch, right?

Thanks,
Tom

> -
> return;
>