Re: [PATCH] x86/ioremap: Map EFI runtime services data as encrypted for SEV

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Mar 10 2020 - 08:40:02 EST


On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 09:42:07AM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> The dmidecode program fails to properly decode the SMBIOS data supplied
> by OVMF/UEFI when running on an SEV guest. The SMBIOS area, under SEV, is
> encrypted and resides in reserved memory that is marked as EFI runtime
> services data. As a result, when memremap() is attempted for the SMBIOS
> data, it can't be mapped as regular RAM (through try_ram_remap()) and,
> since the address isn't part of the iomem resources list, it isn't mapped
> encrypted through the fallback ioremap().
>
> Update __ioremap_check_mem() to set the IORES_MAP_ENCRYPTED flag if SEV is
> active and the memory being mapped is part of EFI runtime services data.
> This allows any runtime services data, which has been created encrypted,
> to be mapped encrypted.
>
> Cc: Bruce Rogers <brogers@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
> index 44e4beb4239f..382b6ca66820 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
> @@ -135,6 +135,13 @@ static void __ioremap_check_mem(resource_size_t addr, unsigned long size,
> memset(desc, 0, sizeof(struct ioremap_desc));
>
> walk_mem_res(start, end, desc, __ioremap_collect_map_flags);
> +
> + /*
> + * The EFI runtime services data area is not covered by walk_mem_res(),
> + * but must be mapped encrypted when SEV is active.
> + */
> + if (sev_active() && efi_mem_type(addr) == EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA)
> + desc->flags |= IORES_MAP_ENCRYPTED;
> }

Why isn't this done in __ioremap_check_encrypted() which is exactly for
SEV stuff like that?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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