Re: [RFC PATCH v3 08/20] x86: Add support for early encryption/decryption of memory

From: Tom Lendacky
Date: Wed Nov 16 2016 - 14:22:56 EST


On 11/16/2016 4:46 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Btw, for your next submission, this patch can be split in two exactly
> like the commit message paragraphs are:

I think I originally had it that way, I don't know why I combined them.
I'll split them out.

>
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 06:36:10PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>> Add support to be able to either encrypt or decrypt data in place during
>> the early stages of booting the kernel. This does not change the memory
>> encryption attribute - it is used for ensuring that data present in either
>> an encrypted or un-encrypted memory area is in the proper state (for
>> example the initrd will have been loaded by the boot loader and will not be
>> encrypted, but the memory that it resides in is marked as encrypted).
>
> Patch 2: users of the new memmap change
>
>> The early_memmap support is enhanced to specify encrypted and un-encrypted
>> mappings with and without write-protection. The use of write-protection is
>> necessary when encrypting data "in place". The write-protect attribute is
>> considered cacheable for loads, but not stores. This implies that the
>> hardware will never give the core a dirty line with this memtype.
>
> Patch 1: change memmap
>
> This makes this aspect of the patchset much clearer and is better for
> bisection.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h | 9 +++
>> arch/x86/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h | 15 +++++
>> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 8 +++
>> arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c | 28 +++++++++
>> arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/asm-generic/early_ioremap.h | 2 +
>> mm/early_ioremap.c | 15 +++++
>> 7 files changed, 179 insertions(+)
>
> ...
>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c b/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
>> index d642cc5..06235b4 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
>> @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
>> #include <linux/init.h>
>> #include <linux/mm.h>
>>
>> +#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
>> +#include <asm/fixmap.h>
>> +
>> extern pmdval_t early_pmd_flags;
>>
>> /*
>> @@ -24,6 +27,105 @@ extern pmdval_t early_pmd_flags;
>> unsigned long sme_me_mask __section(.data) = 0;
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sme_me_mask);
>>
>> +/* Buffer used for early in-place encryption by BSP, no locking needed */
>> +static char sme_early_buffer[PAGE_SIZE] __aligned(PAGE_SIZE);
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * This routine does not change the underlying encryption setting of the
>> + * page(s) that map this memory. It assumes that eventually the memory is
>> + * meant to be accessed as encrypted but the contents are currently not
>> + * encrypted.
>> + */
>> +void __init sme_early_mem_enc(resource_size_t paddr, unsigned long size)
>> +{
>> + void *src, *dst;
>> + size_t len;
>> +
>> + if (!sme_me_mask)
>> + return;
>> +
>> + local_flush_tlb();
>> + wbinvd();
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * There are limited number of early mapping slots, so map (at most)
>> + * one page at time.
>> + */
>> + while (size) {
>> + len = min_t(size_t, sizeof(sme_early_buffer), size);
>> +
>> + /* Create a mapping for non-encrypted write-protected memory */
>> + src = early_memremap_dec_wp(paddr, len);
>> +
>> + /* Create a mapping for encrypted memory */
>> + dst = early_memremap_enc(paddr, len);
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * If a mapping can't be obtained to perform the encryption,
>> + * then encrypted access to that area will end up causing
>> + * a crash.
>> + */
>> + BUG_ON(!src || !dst);
>> +
>> + memcpy(sme_early_buffer, src, len);
>> + memcpy(dst, sme_early_buffer, len);
>
> I still am missing the short explanation why we need the temporary buffer.

Ok, I'll add that.

>
>
> Oh, and we can save us the code duplication a little. Diff ontop of yours:

Yup, makes sense. I'll incorporate this.

Thanks,
Tom

>
> ---
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c b/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
> index 06235b477d7c..50e2c4fc7338 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
> @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ static char sme_early_buffer[PAGE_SIZE] __aligned(PAGE_SIZE);
> * meant to be accessed as encrypted but the contents are currently not
> * encrypted.
> */
> -void __init sme_early_mem_enc(resource_size_t paddr, unsigned long size)
> +static void __init noinline
> +__mem_enc_dec(resource_size_t paddr, unsigned long size, bool enc)
> {
> void *src, *dst;
> size_t len;
> @@ -54,15 +55,15 @@ void __init sme_early_mem_enc(resource_size_t paddr, unsigned long size)
> while (size) {
> len = min_t(size_t, sizeof(sme_early_buffer), size);
>
> - /* Create a mapping for non-encrypted write-protected memory */
> - src = early_memremap_dec_wp(paddr, len);
> + src = (enc ? early_memremap_dec_wp(paddr, len)
> + : early_memremap_enc_wp(paddr, len));
>
> - /* Create a mapping for encrypted memory */
> - dst = early_memremap_enc(paddr, len);
> + dst = (enc ? early_memremap_enc(paddr, len)
> + : early_memremap_dec(paddr, len));
>
> /*
> - * If a mapping can't be obtained to perform the encryption,
> - * then encrypted access to that area will end up causing
> + * If a mapping can't be obtained to perform the dec/encryption,
> + * then (un-)encrypted access to that area will end up causing
> * a crash.
> */
> BUG_ON(!src || !dst);
> @@ -78,52 +79,14 @@ void __init sme_early_mem_enc(resource_size_t paddr, unsigned long size)
> }
> }
>
> -/*
> - * This routine does not change the underlying encryption setting of the
> - * page(s) that map this memory. It assumes that eventually the memory is
> - * meant to be accessed as not encrypted but the contents are currently
> - * encrypted.
> - */
> -void __init sme_early_mem_dec(resource_size_t paddr, unsigned long size)
> +void __init sme_early_mem_enc(resource_size_t paddr, unsigned long size)
> {
> - void *src, *dst;
> - size_t len;
> -
> - if (!sme_me_mask)
> - return;
> -
> - local_flush_tlb();
> - wbinvd();
> -
> - /*
> - * There are limited number of early mapping slots, so map (at most)
> - * one page at time.
> - */
> - while (size) {
> - len = min_t(size_t, sizeof(sme_early_buffer), size);
> -
> - /* Create a mapping for encrypted write-protected memory */
> - src = early_memremap_enc_wp(paddr, len);
> -
> - /* Create a mapping for non-encrypted memory */
> - dst = early_memremap_dec(paddr, len);
> -
> - /*
> - * If a mapping can't be obtained to perform the decryption,
> - * then un-encrypted access to that area will end up causing
> - * a crash.
> - */
> - BUG_ON(!src || !dst);
> -
> - memcpy(sme_early_buffer, src, len);
> - memcpy(dst, sme_early_buffer, len);
> -
> - early_memunmap(dst, len);
> - early_memunmap(src, len);
> + return __mem_enc_dec(paddr, size, true);
> +}
>
> - paddr += len;
> - size -= len;
> - }
> +void __init sme_early_mem_dec(resource_size_t paddr, unsigned long size)
> +{
> + return __mem_enc_dec(paddr, size, false);
> }
>
> void __init sme_early_init(void)
>