Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/sev: Disallow userspace access to BIOS region for SEV-SNP guests

Dave Hansen
2025-04-08T21:19:28Z

On 4/8/25 06:43, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>> Tom/Boris, do you see a problem blocking access to /dev/mem for SEV
>> guests?
> Not sure why we would suddenly not allow that.

Both TDX and SEV-SNP have issues with allowing access to /dev/mem.
Disallowing access to the individually troublesome regions can fix
_part_ of the problem. But suddenly blocking access is guaranteed to fix
*ALL* the problems forever.

Or, maybe we just start returning 0's for all reads and throw away all
writes. That is probably less likely to break userspace that doesn't
know what it's doing in the first place.