Re: [Part2 PATCH v5 18/31] KVM: SVM: VMRUN should use assosiated ASID when SEV is enabled

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Oct 14 2017 - 05:27:39 EST


On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 08:13:59AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> SEV hardware uses ASIDs to associate memory encryption key with the
> guest VM. During the guest creation time, SEV VM use SEV_CMD_ACTIVATE
> command to bind a particular ASID to the guest. Lets make sure that the
> VMCB is programmed with the bound ASID before a VMRUN.

Some minor corrections:

"SEV hardware uses ASIDs to associate a memory encryption key with a
guest VM. During guest creation, a SEV VM uses the SEV_CMD_ACTIVATE
command to bind a particular ASID to the guest. Lets make sure that the
VMCB is programmed with the bound ASID before a VMRUN."

>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Radim KrÄmÃÅ" <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

With that:

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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