Re: [PATCH v6 09/42] x86/sev: Check SEV-SNP features support

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Oct 19 2021 - 10:47:48 EST


On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 01:04:20PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> +static bool do_early_sev_setup(void)
> {
> if (!sev_es_negotiate_protocol())
> sev_es_terminate(SEV_TERM_SET_GEN, GHCB_SEV_ES_PROT_UNSUPPORTED);
>
> + /*
> + * If SEV-SNP is enabled, then check if the hypervisor supports the SEV-SNP
> + * features.

This and the other comment should say something along the lines of:

"SNP is supported in v2 of the GHCB spec which mandates support for HV
features."

because it wasn't clear to me why we're enforcing that support here.

Thx.

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