Re: [PATCH v3 40/75] x86/sev-es: Compile early handler code into kernel image

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Jun 04 2020 - 11:20:02 EST


On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 01:54:13PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> It is not only the trace-point, this would also eliminate exception
> handling in case the MSR access triggers a #GP. The "Unhandled MSR
> read/write" messages would turn into a "General Protection Fault"
> message.

But the early ones can trigger a #GP too. And there we can't handle
those #GPs.

Why would the late ones need exception handling all of a sudden? And
for the GHCB MSR, of all MSRs which the SEV-ES guest has used so far to
bootstrap?!

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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