Re: [Part1 PATCH v4 12/17] x86/boot: Add early boot support when running with SEV active

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Sep 17 2017 - 10:42:08 EST


On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 07:34:13AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
>
> Early in the boot process, add checks to determine if the kernel is
> running with Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) active.
>
> Checking for SEV requires checking that the kernel is running under a
> hypervisor (CPUID 0x00000001, bit 31), that the SEV feature is available
> (CPUID 0x8000001f, bit 1) and then checking a non-interceptable SEV MSR
> (0xc0010131, bit 0).
>
> This check is required so that during early compressed kernel booting the
> pagetables (both the boot pagetables and KASLR pagetables (if enabled) are
> updated to include the encryption mask so that when the kernel is
> decompressed into encrypted memory, it can boot properly.
>
> After the kernel is decompressed and continues booting the same logic is
> used to check if SEV is active and set a flag indicating so. This allows
> us to distinguish between SME and SEV, each of which have unique
> differences in how certain things are handled: e.g. DMA (always bounce
> buffered with SEV) or EFI tables (always access decrypted with SME).
>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Radim KrÄmÃÅ" <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 16 +++++
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem_encrypt.S | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 2 +
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.c | 8 ++-
> arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 3 +
> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 1 -
> arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c | 50 ++++++++++----
> 8 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem_encrypt.S

...

> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem_encrypt.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem_encrypt.S
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..03149c77c749
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem_encrypt.S
> @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
> +/*
> + * AMD Memory Encryption Support
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2017 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> + *
> + * Author: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/linkage.h>
> +
> +#include <asm/processor-flags.h>
> +#include <asm/msr.h>
> +#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
> +
> + .text
> + .code32
> +ENTRY(get_sev_encryption_bit)
> + xor %eax, %eax
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
> + push %ebx
> + push %ecx
> + push %edx
> + push %edi
> +
> + call 1f
> +1: popl %edi
> + subl $1b, %edi

32-bit RIP-relative addressing huh? :)

It definitely deserves a comment.

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Boris.

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