Re: [PATCH v8 29/40] x86/compressed/64: add support for SEV-SNP CPUID table in #VC handlers

Michael Roth
2022-01-18T14:24:08Z

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 03:02:48PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 10:35:21PM -0600, Michael Roth wrote:
> > Unfortunately, in sev_enable(), between the point where snp_init() is
> > called, and sev_status is actually set, there are a number of cpuid
> > intructions which will make use of do_vc_no_ghcb() prior to sev_status
> > being set (and it needs to happen in that order to set sev_status
> > appropriately). After that point, snp_cpuid_active() would no longer be
> > necessary, but during that span some indicator is needed in case this
> > is just an SEV-ES guest trigger cpuid #VCs.
>
> You mean testing what snp_cpuid_info_create() set up is not enough?
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sev-shared.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sev-shared.c
> index 7bc7e297f88c..17cfe804bad3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/sev-shared.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sev-shared.c
> @@ -523,7 +523,9 @@ static int snp_cpuid_postprocess(u32 func, u32 subfunc, u32 *eax, u32 *ebx,
> static int snp_cpuid(u32 func, u32 subfunc, u32 *eax, u32 *ebx, u32 *ecx,
> u32 *edx)
> {
> - if (!snp_cpuid_active())
> + const struct snp_cpuid_info *c = snp_cpuid_info_get_ptr();
> +
> + if (!c->count)
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>
> if (!snp_cpuid_find_validated_func(func, subfunc, eax, ebx, ecx, edx)) {

snp_cpuid_info_get_ptr() will always return non-NULL, since it's a
pointer to the local copy of the cpuid page. But I can probably re-work
it slightly that so snp_cpuid_info_get_ptr() does the same check that
snp_cpuid_active() does, and have it return NULL if the copy hasn't been
initialized, if that seems preferable to the separate snp_cpuid_active()
function.

>
> ---
>
> Btw, all those
>
> /* SEV-SNP CPUID table should be set up now. */
> if (!snp_cpuid_active())
> sev_es_terminate(1, GHCB_TERM_CPUID);
>
> after snp_cpuid_info_create() has returned are useless either. If that
> function returns, you know you're good to go wrt SNP.

It seemed like a good thing to assert in case something slipped in later
that tried to use snp_cpuid() without the table being initialized, but
if I implement things the way you suggested above,
snp_cpuid_info_get_ptr() will return NULL in that case, so we get that
assurance for free. That does sound cleaner.

>
> Thx.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
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