Re: [PATCH] x86/coco, x86/sev: Use cpu_feature_enabled() to detect SEV guest flavor

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Dec 05 2023 - 12:16:54 EST


On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 05:00:35PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 06:14:37PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > My point is that if you need to check for SEV you need to check SEV, not
> > CC_ATTR. CC_ATTRs only make sense in generic code that deals with multiple
> > CoCo environments.
>
> That makes more sense.
>
> So that commit already says "If future support is added for other
> memory encryption technologies, the use of CC_ATTR_GUEST_MEM_ENCRYPT
> can be updated, as required."
>
> And what this test needs to do is to check:
>
> if (guest type >= SEV)
>
> meaning SEV and -ES and -SNP.
>
> I'm wondering if we should export amd_cc_platform_has() for such
> cases...

What's wrong with using X86_FEATURE_* here?

X86_FEATURE_SEV_GUEST is set for all SEVs. X86_FEATURE_SEV_ES_GUEST and
X86_FEATURE_SEV_SNP_GUEST can be used to test specific flavor.

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