From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F0A7C77B7E for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:19:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S244169AbjD0PTF (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:19:05 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:47980 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S244165AbjD0PTC (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:19:02 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-x64a.google.com (mail-pl1-x64a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::64a]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D1604495 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:19:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pl1-x64a.google.com with SMTP id d9443c01a7336-1a681ad22c8so53477065ad.2 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:19:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20221208; t=1682608740; x=1685200740; h=content-transfer-encoding:cc:to:from:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:in-reply-to:date:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=96tlb4cNoJcCgE10H273pQD9ijy1ih2oOSASLKRE9RA=; b=B9P9p3oRb2CBdbm9CWbdyCK/nucae2EGpAlsCblo9mDN/lRgWAN1Ku83ChZU2ku51u cGwtpxaxyImwGmJEELqwjCR6CGLc9sOte9monJrlajGAoE1pJ6SeoiZSvRtIoJ+OCQSX dfUwJWtlglsocmLoe845ime1ijnnxnvtZKim/+b4RXAFbO9BFmwr7dI1QbQtHFCndLwJ z8AURsfaSLu2ANG9zFM0ST7XfiJDzeTma2VWGadUlaZOleBVWHNHQ5yMYOQF1lEQU41t h8qG0FzNgrhAlLIfeZhVWv9bqFG1rL5s1nnQYpYTJ8mz0+YDtrn7H4NbsY4ROx8OVLAE Ezjg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1682608740; x=1685200740; h=content-transfer-encoding:cc:to:from:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:in-reply-to:date:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject :date:message-id:reply-to; bh=96tlb4cNoJcCgE10H273pQD9ijy1ih2oOSASLKRE9RA=; b=IZVlVC0H27HHX6ZfP2YMUbwxof6qfKVxMb+ULqvmDdQXjunxABMho+wD0SaJ14jOhd +moKq0cWfeJaNHr/70w9gmdEiR6DeWxbynqfi4cWTieY3zR2cov7LJibOTiLLBy4kGFs F6IX21SCV2K5Ks+cYrGqvzJay9tGSYndODY9KPduQR/rKm3sk/hwbsZxVR4UfcYwbFY2 2+Su7V3Ju6lNoy3kmihRIdHqwzJaGqLIzpJxD14diRs5ZHlrKAnF3zaf+A+kCRWz8A58 4i9XsRueb+K+n+oyrvn3OxlWs37DMO0w/lFZgqVPFtWhXOL6DS9xLKZs/RJyQOb3xgFG YjGw== X-Gm-Message-State: AC+VfDw20hE35KnZdb/VYOcjBhoaDwVsXX3QvSo0NxTm6MNBNcUftknu IZLLL6aCV7h9Ky+4Ybi4bvmoYkb6nGQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACHHUZ50qd4blUbaXDb7lEisXCYr+IljkCjGN3LmpsZoacfv64lAa7NJlhTCBBJH6KQKoqiX33IZCkEbDC4= X-Received: from zagreus.c.googlers.com ([fda3:e722:ac3:cc00:7f:e700:c0a8:5c37]) (user=seanjc job=sendgmr) by 2002:a17:902:b497:b0:1a6:6c4e:4aa5 with SMTP id y23-20020a170902b49700b001a66c4e4aa5mr588890plr.11.1682608739881; Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:18:58 -0700 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <9fa5ce43-584d-878d-227a-fb458254c00a@amd.com> <9021d861-cde6-a51a-7d8c-b3f67eaa01d8@amd.com> <04383d21-b71e-93dd-5f4c-b39f5bc21937@amd.com> Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: security: Confidential computing intro and threat model From: Sean Christopherson To: Carlos Bilbao Cc: Elena Reshetova , "corbet@lwn.net" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "ardb@kernel.org" , "kraxel@redhat.com" , "dovmurik@linux.ibm.com" , "dave.hansen@linux.intel.com" , "Dhaval.Giani@amd.com" , "michael.day@amd.com" , "pavankumar.paluri@amd.com" , "David.Kaplan@amd.com" , "Reshma.Lal@amd.com" , "Jeremy.Powell@amd.com" , "sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com" , "alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com" , "thomas.lendacky@amd.com" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "dgilbert@redhat.com" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "dinechin@redhat.com" , "linux-coco@lists.linux.dev" , "berrange@redhat.com" , "mst@redhat.com" , "tytso@mit.edu" , "jikos@kernel.org" , "joro@8bytes.org" , "leon@kernel.org" , "richard.weinberger@gmail.com" , "lukas@wunner.de" , "jejb@linux.ibm.com" , "cdupontd@redhat.com" , "jasowang@redhat.com" , "sameo@rivosinc.com" , "bp@alien8.de" , "security@kernel.org" , Andrew Bresticker , Rajnesh Kanwal , Dylan Reid , Ravi Sahita Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, Carlos Bilbao wrote: > On 4/27/23 7:29 AM, Reshetova, Elena wrote: > > I agree with Dave that I think the goal of this document is not to come= up with a > > fancy name (I am fine with call it anything), but to introduce kernel d= evelopers to the=20 > > new Linux threat model angle for this-particular-use-case-of-confidenti= al-computing. > > So that when we submit the hardening mechanisms in the future people ar= e=20 > > already familiar with why we need to do this and we don=E2=80=99t have = to repeat this story=20 > > again and again.=20 >=20 > Yes! To reiterate, there's two things we definitely wish to do: >=20 > 1. Narrow down the problem: This new document can be specific to CoCo in > virtual environments. v2 should be clear about that. Then rename the document as I already suggested. If you want to claim confidential-computing.rst, then IMO such a doc needs to be written somethi= ng like the surprisingly good Wikipedia article[*]. Until one of those two th= ings happens, my NAK stands. [*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidential_computing