[PATCH v4 0/4] Add throttling detection to sev-guest

From: Dionna Glaze
Date: Mon Oct 24 2022 - 20:24:13 EST


The guest request synchronous API from SEV-SNP VMs to the host's security
processor consumes a global resource. For this reason, AMD's docs
recommend that the host implements a throttling mechanism. In order for
the guest to know it's been throttled and should try its request again,
we need some good-faith communication from the host that the request
has been throttled.

These patches work with the existing /dev/sev-guest ABI to detect a
throttling code.

Changes from v3:
* sev-guest ratelimits itself to one request twice a second.
* Fixed a type signature to use u64 instead of unsigned int
* Set *exitinfo2 unconditionally after the ghcb_hv_call.
Changes from v2:
* Codified the non-firmware-call firmware error code as (u32)-1.
* Changed sev_issue_guest_request unsigned long *fw_err argument to
u64 *exitinfo2 to more accurately and type-safely describe the
value that it outputs.
* Changed sev_issue_guest_request to always set its exitinfo2
argument to either the non-firmware-call error code, the
EXIT_INFO_2 returned from the VMM if the request failed, or 0 on
success. This fixes a bug that returned uninitialized kernel stack
memory to the user when there is no error.
* Changed the throttle behavior to retry in the driver instead of
returning -EAGAIN, due to possible message sequence number reuse
on different message contents.

Changes from v1:
* Changed throttle error code to 2

Cc: Tom Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Gonda <pgonda@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Dionna Glaze <dionnaglaze@xxxxxxxxxx>

Dionna Glaze (4):
ccp: Name -1 return value as SEV_RET_NO_FW_CALL
x86/sev: Change snp_guest_issue_request's fw_err
virt/coco/sev-guest: Remove err in handle_guest_request
virt/coco/sev-guest: interpret VMM errors from guest request

arch/x86/include/asm/sev.h | 4 +-
arch/x86/kernel/sev.c | 10 ++--
drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 2 +-
drivers/virt/coco/sev-guest/sev-guest.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
include/uapi/linux/psp-sev.h | 7 +++
include/uapi/linux/sev-guest.h | 18 +++++++-
6 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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