From: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
To: "linux-coco@lists.linux.dev" <linux-coco@lists.linux.dev>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] x86/virt/tdx: Skip TDH.SYS.DISABLE if the TDX module is not initialized
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 19:28:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <223dd15d2740bf6d2010e3b4a295b22c559dfdad.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261102073244.919864-1-challvy.tee@gmail.com>
On Mon, 2026-11-02 at 15:32 +0800, Challvy Tee wrote:
> Commit 5b25f249be32 ("x86/tdx: Disable the TDX module during kexec and
> kdump") made native_machine_crash_shutdown() call tdx_sys_disable(),
> whose only gate is compile time (CONFIG_INTEL_TDX_HOST). A kernel that
> never initialized the TDX module therefore still issues
> TDH.SYS.DISABLE.
>
> In VMX non-root operation on a SEAM-capable host, SEAMCALL causes a VM
> exit instead of a native #UD. KVM injects #UD only since
> commit 9d7dfb95da2c ("KVM: VMX: Inject #UD if guest tries to execute
> SEAMCALL or TDCALL"), first released in v6.18. On an older host the
> VMM gets KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR and the vCPU never resumes, so
> machine_kexec() is never reached and no vmcore is written. Kdump is
> thus broken only in guests on SEAM-capable hosts whose hypervisor does
> not handle the exit; plain kexec is unaffected because tdx_shutdown()
> only runs as a syscore op, registered after init_tdx_module() succeeds.
>
> Gate the SEAMCALL on X86_FEATURE_TDX_HOST_PLATFORM before issuing it,
> the way paddr_is_tdx_private() already guards its own SEAMCALL in this
> file. Without that feature the module is never initialized, so there
> is nothing to disable; on a TDX host the gate is a no-op.
>
> It also decouples kdump from the host KVM version -- a guest cannot
> require its host to inject the #UD.
>
> Fixes: 5b25f249be32 ("x86/tdx: Disable the TDX module during kexec and kdump")
> Suggested-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Challvy Tee <challvy.tee@gmail.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-02 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20261029080731.890996-1-challvy.tee@gmail.com>
2026-10-29 9:47 ` [PATCH v2] x86/virt/tdx: Skip TDH.SYS.DISABLE if the TDX module is not initialized Challvy Tee
2026-10-29 12:10 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-10-30 15:48 ` [PATCH v3] " Challvy Tee
2026-10-30 16:13 ` Dave Hansen
2026-10-30 16:26 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-10-30 16:38 ` Dave Hansen
2026-11-02 7:32 ` [PATCH v4] " Challvy Tee
2026-11-02 9:42 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-11-02 19:28 ` Edgecombe, Rick P [this message]
2026-11-02 22:24 ` Verma, Vishal L
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