Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] x86/tdx: Add TDX Guest attestation interface driver

Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-27T14:09:19Z

On 4/26/22 9:28 PM, Kai Huang wrote:
>
>>
>> How about the following summary? It includes important notes mentioned
>> by you and some more driver info.
>
> Yes fine to me, except minor comments below:
>
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>> x86/tdx: Add TDX Guest attestation interface driver
>>
>> In TDX guest, attestation is used to verify the trustworthiness of a TD
>> to other entities before provisioning secrets to the TD.
>>
>> One usage example is, when a TD guest uses encrypted drive and if the
>> decryption keys required to access the drive are stored in a secure 3rd
>> party key server, the key server can use attestation to verify TD's
>> trustworthiness and release the decryption keys to the TD.
>>
>> The attestation process consists of two steps: TDREPORT generation and
>> Quote generation.
>>
>> TDREPORT (TDREPORT_STRUCT) is a fixed-size data structure generated by
>> the TDX module which contains TD-specific information (such as TD
>> measurements), platform security version, and the MAC to protect the
>> integrity of the TDREPORT. The TD kernel uses TDCALL[TDG.MR.REPORT] to
>> get the TDREPORT from the TDX module. A user-provided 64-Byte
>> REPORTDATA is used as input and included in the TDREPORT. Typically it
>> can be some nonce provided by attestation service so the TDREPORT can
>> be verified uniquely. More details about TDREPORT can be found in
>> Intel TDX Module specification, section titled "TDG.MR.REPORT Leaf".
>>
>> After getting the TDREPORT, the second step of the attestation process
>> is to send the TDREPORT to Quoting Enclave (QE) or Quote Generation
>> Service (QGS) to generate the Quote. However, the method of sending the
>> TDREPORT to QE/QGS, communication channel used and data format used is
>> specific to the implementation of QE/QGS.
>>
>> A typical implementation is, TD userspace attestation software gets the
>> TDREPORT from TD kernel, sends it to QE/QGS, and QE/QGS returns the
>> Quote. TD attestation software can use any available communication
>> channel to talk to QE/QGS, such as using vsock and tcp/ip.
>>
>> To support the case that those communication channels are not directly
>> available to the TD, TDX also defines TDVMCALL
>> (TDG.VP.VMCALL<GetQuote>) to allow TD to ask VMM to help with sending
>> the TDREPORT and receiving the Quote. This support is documented in the
>> GHCI spec section titled "5.4 TD attestation".
>
> I intentionally omitted to mention TDG.VP.VMCALL<GetQuote> as I personally
> believe there are still couple issues around GetQuote that we haven't discussed
> thoroughly (timeout, etc). I am still considering whether we should change GHCI
> to use TDG.VP.VMCALL<Service> defined in GHCI 1.5 for attestation. And the name
> of TDVMCALL doesn't actually matter here, so I think we don't need to mention
> GetQuote here but just say we have TDVMCALLs for that.

Ok.

>
>>
>> Implement a basic attestation driver to allow TD userspace to get the
>> TDREPORT, which is sent to QE by the attestation software to generate
>> a Quote for remote verification. Add a wrapper function
>> (tdx_mcall_tdreport()) to get the TDREPORT from the TDX Module. This
>> API will be used by the interface driver to request for TDREPORT.
>
> I don't think you need to mention tdx_mcall_tdreport().

Ok. Will remove it.

>
>>
>> Also note that explicit access permissions are not enforced in this
>> driver because the quote and measurements are not a secret. However
>> the access permissions of the device node can be used to set any
>> desired access policy. The udev default is usually root access
>> only.
>>
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>

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer