Re: [PATCH v4 7/7] crypto: ccp: Move SEV/SNP Platform initialization to KVM

[Tom Lendacky]

On 2/19/25 14:55, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
> 
> SNP initialization is forced during PSP driver probe purely because SNP
> can't be initialized if VMs are running.  But the only in-tree user of
> SEV/SNP functionality is KVM, and KVM depends on PSP driver for the same.
> Forcing SEV/SNP initialization because a hypervisor could be running
> legacy non-confidential VMs make no sense.
> 
> This patch removes SEV/SNP initialization from the PSP driver probe
> time and moves the requirement to initialize SEV/SNP functionality
> to KVM if it wants to use SEV/SNP.
> 
> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 25 +------------------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
> index f0f3e6d29200..99a663dbc2b6 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
> @@ -1346,18 +1346,13 @@ static int _sev_platform_init_locked(struct sev_platform_init_args *args)
>  	if (sev->state == SEV_STATE_INIT)
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Legacy guests cannot be running while SNP_INIT(_EX) is executing,
> -	 * so perform SEV-SNP initialization at probe time.
> -	 */
>  	rc = __sev_snp_init_locked(&args->error);
>  	if (rc && rc != -ENODEV) {
>  		/*
>  		 * Don't abort the probe if SNP INIT failed,
>  		 * continue to initialize the legacy SEV firmware.
>  		 */
> -		dev_err(sev->dev, "SEV-SNP: failed to INIT rc %d, error %#x\n",
> -			rc, args->error);
> +		dev_err(sev->dev, "SEV-SNP: failed to INIT, continue SEV INIT\n");

Please don't remove the error information.

>  	}
>  
>  	/* Defer legacy SEV/SEV-ES support if allowed by caller/module. */
> @@ -2505,9 +2500,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sev_issue_cmd_external_user);
>  void sev_pci_init(void)
>  {
>  	struct sev_device *sev = psp_master->sev_data;
> -	struct sev_platform_init_args args = {0};
>  	u8 api_major, api_minor, build;
> -	int rc;
>  
>  	if (!sev)
>  		return;
> @@ -2530,16 +2523,6 @@ void sev_pci_init(void)
>  			 api_major, api_minor, build,
>  			 sev->api_major, sev->api_minor, sev->build);
>  
> -	/* Initialize the platform */
> -	args.probe = true;
> -	rc = sev_platform_init(&args);
> -	if (rc)
> -		dev_err(sev->dev, "SEV: failed to INIT error %#x, rc %d\n",
> -			args.error, rc);
> -
> -	dev_info(sev->dev, "SEV%s API:%d.%d build:%d\n", sev->snp_initialized ?
> -		"-SNP" : "", sev->api_major, sev->api_minor, sev->build);
> -
>  	return;
>  
>  err:
> @@ -2550,10 +2533,4 @@ void sev_pci_init(void)
>  
>  void sev_pci_exit(void)
>  {
> -	struct sev_device *sev = psp_master->sev_data;
> -
> -	if (!sev)
> -		return;
> -
> -	sev_firmware_shutdown(sev);

Should this remain? If there's a bug in KVM that somehow skips the
shutdown call, then SEV will remain initialized. I think the path is
safe to call a second time.

Thanks,
Tom


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