Re: [PATCH] crypto: ccp - Retry SEV INIT command in case of integrity check failure.

From: David Rientjes
Date: Sat Oct 19 2019 - 04:59:09 EST


On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Kalra, Ashish wrote:

> From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
>
> SEV INIT command loads the SEV related persistent data from NVS
> and initializes the platform context. The firmware validates the
> persistent state. If validation fails, the firmware will reset
> the persisent state and return an integrity check failure status.
>
> At this point, a subsequent INIT command should succeed, so retry
> the command. The INIT command retry is only done during driver
> initialization.
>
> Additional enums along with SEV_RET_SECURE_DATA_INVALID are added
> to sev_ret_code to maintain continuity and relevance of enum values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> include/uapi/linux/psp-sev.h | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c b/drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c
> index 6b17d179ef8a..f9318d4482f2 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c
> @@ -1064,6 +1064,18 @@ void psp_pci_init(void)
>
> /* Initialize the platform */
> rc = sev_platform_init(&error);
> + if (rc && (error == SEV_RET_SECURE_DATA_INVALID)) {
> + /*
> + * INIT command returned an integrity check failure
> + * status code, meaning that firmware load and
> + * validation of SEV related persistent data has
> + * failed and persistent state has been erased.
> + * Retrying INIT command here should succeed.
> + */
> + dev_dbg(sp->dev, "SEV: retrying INIT command");
> + rc = sev_platform_init(&error);
> + }
> +
> if (rc) {
> dev_err(sp->dev, "SEV: failed to INIT error %#x\n", error);
> return;

Curious why this isn't done in __sev_platform_init_locked() since
sev_platform_init() can be called when loading the kvm module and the same
init failure can happen that way.

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/psp-sev.h b/include/uapi/linux/psp-sev.h
> index 8654b2442f6a..a8537f4e5e08 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/psp-sev.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/psp-sev.h
> @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ typedef enum {
> SEV_RET_HWSEV_RET_PLATFORM,
> SEV_RET_HWSEV_RET_UNSAFE,
> SEV_RET_UNSUPPORTED,
> + SEV_RET_INVALID_PARAM,
> + SEV_RET_RESOURCE_LIMIT,
> + SEV_RET_SECURE_DATA_INVALID,
> SEV_RET_MAX,
> } sev_ret_code;
>