Re: [RFC PATCH v2 19/20] x86: Access the setup data through debugfs un-encrypted

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 05:38:59PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> Since the setup data is in memory in the clear, it must be accessed as
> un-encrypted.  Always use ioremap (similar to sysfs setup data support)
> to map the data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c |   30 +++++++++++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c
> index bdb83e4..a58a82e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c
> @@ -48,17 +48,13 @@ static ssize_t setup_data_read(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
>  
>  	pa = node->paddr + sizeof(struct setup_data) + pos;
>  	pg = pfn_to_page((pa + count - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> -	if (PageHighMem(pg)) {

Why is it ok to get rid of the PageHighMem() check?

Btw, we did talk earlier in the thread about making __va() clear the SME
mask and then you won't really need to change stuff here. Or?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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