Re: SME/32-bit regression

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Sep 06 2017 - 05:26:34 EST


On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:45:07PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> It appears there is a regression for 32-bit kernels due to SME changes.
>
> I bisected my particular problem

It being? Doesn't boot, splats?

> (Xen PV guest) to
> 21729f81ce8ae76a6995681d40e16f7ce8075db4 but I also saw pmd_clear_bad()
> errors on baremetal. This seems to be caused by sme_me_mask being an
> unsigned long as opposed to phys_addr_t (the actual problem is that
> __PHYSICAL_MASK is truncated). When I declare it as u64 and drop unsigned
> long cast in __sme_set()/__sme_clr() the problem goes way. (This presumably
> won't work for non-PAE which I haven't tried).

Right, so I think we should do this because those macros should not have
any effect on !CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT setups.

---
diff --git a/include/linux/mem_encrypt.h b/include/linux/mem_encrypt.h
index 1255f09f5e42..823eec6ba951 100644
--- a/include/linux/mem_encrypt.h
+++ b/include/linux/mem_encrypt.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ static inline unsigned long sme_get_me_mask(void)
return sme_me_mask;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
/*
* The __sme_set() and __sme_clr() macros are useful for adding or removing
* the encryption mask from a value (e.g. when dealing with pagetable
@@ -42,6 +43,10 @@ static inline unsigned long sme_get_me_mask(void)
*/
#define __sme_set(x) ((unsigned long)(x) | sme_me_mask)
#define __sme_clr(x) ((unsigned long)(x) & ~sme_me_mask)
+#else
+#define __sme_set(x) (x)
+#define __sme_clr(x) (x)
+#endif

#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */




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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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