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[142.162.112.119]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 6a1803df08f44-89a57a4ec29sm837376d6.19.2026.03.09.08.50.15 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jgg by wakko with local (Exim 4.97) (envelope-from ) id 1vzcs3-0000000GsMM-18A4; Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:50:15 -0300 Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 12:50:15 -0300 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: Peter Gonda Cc: Jiri Pirko , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, sumit.semwal@linaro.org, benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com, Brian.Starkey@arm.com, jstultz@google.com, tjmercier@google.com, christian.koenig@amd.com, m.szyprowski@samsung.com, robin.murphy@arm.com, leon@kernel.org, sean.anderson@linux.dev, ptesarik@suse.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, aneesh.kumar@kernel.org, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, steven.price@arm.com, thomas.lendacky@amd.com, john.allen@amd.com, ashish.kalra@amd.com, suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com, linux-coco@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] dma-buf: heaps: system: add system_cc_decrypted heap for explicitly decrypted memory Message-ID: <20260309155015.GP1687929@ziepe.ca> References: <20260305123641.164164-1-jiri@resnulli.us> <20260305123641.164164-3-jiri@resnulli.us> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: iommu@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 09:39:44AM -0600, Peter Gonda wrote: > Great feature to have thanks Jiri! A couple naive questions. > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 5:38 AM Jiri Pirko wrote: > > > > From: Jiri Pirko > > > > Add a new "system_cc_decrypted" dma-buf heap to allow userspace to > > allocate decrypted (shared) memory for confidential computing (CoCo) > > VMs. > > > > On CoCo VMs, guest memory is encrypted by default. The hardware uses an > > encryption bit in page table entries (C-bit on AMD SEV, "shared" bit on > > Intel TDX) to control whether a given memory access is encrypted or > > decrypted. The kernel's direct map is set up with encryption enabled, > > so pages returned by alloc_pages() are encrypted in the direct map > > by default. To make this memory usable for devices that do not support > > DMA to encrypted memory (no TDISP support), it has to be explicitly > > decrypted. A couple of things are needed to properly handle > > decrypted memory for the dma-buf use case: > > > > - set_memory_decrypted() on the direct map after allocation: > > Besides clearing the encryption bit in the direct map PTEs, this > > also notifies the hypervisor about the page state change. On free, > > the inverse set_memory_encrypted() must be called before returning > > pages to the allocator. If re-encryption fails, pages > > are intentionally leaked to prevent decrypted memory from being > > reused as private. > > > > - pgprot_decrypted() for userspace and kernel virtual mappings: > > Any new mapping of the decrypted pages, be it to userspace via > > mmap or to kernel vmalloc space via vmap, creates PTEs independent > > of the direct map. These must also have the encryption bit cleared, > > otherwise accesses through them would see encrypted (garbage) data. > > So this only works on new mappings? What if there are existing > mappings to the memory that will be converted to shared? The set_memory_decrypted() is called during system_heap_allocate(), it is not possible to change dynamically between encrypted/decrypted. Once the heap is created every PTE is always created with the correct pgprot. Jason