Re: [PATCH v10 07/24] virt: sev-guest: Store VMPCK index to SNP guest device structure

From: Nikunj A. Dadhania
Date: Mon Jul 01 2024 - 06:46:32 EST




On 6/28/2024 9:22 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 06:08:46PM +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
>> Currently, SEV guest driver retrieves the pointers to VMPCK and
>> os_area_msg_seqno from the secrets page. In order to get rid of this
>> dependency,
>
> And we do this because...?

Thinking more about this patch, I think I can drop this patch and retain
the VMPCK pointer and the os_area_msg_seqno.

In my v8 [1] and earlier series, I had dropped secrets pages pointer from
snp_guest_dev structure. But with newer changes in v9 secrets pages pointer
is retained so all these APIs will still be fine.

>
>> use vmpck_id to index the appropriate key and the corresponding
>> message sequence number.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@xxxxxxx>

Regards
Nikunj

1. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240215113128.275608-8-nikunj@xxxxxxx/