Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] efi/libstub: Copy confidential computing secret area

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Oct 20 2021 - 02:44:10 EST


On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 06:14:06AM +0000, Dov Murik wrote:
> Confidential computing (coco) hardware such as AMD SEV (Secure Encrypted
> Virtualization) allows a guest owner to inject secrets into the VMs
> memory without the host/hypervisor being able to read them.
>
> Firmware support for secret injection is available in OVMF, which
> reserves a memory area for secret injection and includes a pointer to it
> the in EFI config table entry LINUX_EFI_COCO_SECRET_TABLE_GUID.
> However, OVMF doesn't force the guest OS to keep this memory area
> reserved.
>
> If EFI exposes such a table entry, efi/libstub will copy this area to a
> reserved memory for future use inside the kernel.
>
> A pointer to the new copy is kept in the EFI table under
> LINUX_EFI_COCO_SECRET_AREA_GUID.
>
> The new functionality can be enabled with CONFIG_EFI_COCO_SECRET=y.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dov Murik <dovmurik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 12 +++++
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/coco.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub.c | 2 +
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h | 6 +++
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c | 2 +
> include/linux/efi.h | 6 +++
> 7 files changed, 97 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/coco.c
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> index 2c3dac5ecb36..68d1c5e6a7b5 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> @@ -284,3 +284,15 @@ config EFI_CUSTOM_SSDT_OVERLAYS
>
> See Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for more
> information.
> +
> +config EFI_COCO_SECRET
> + bool "Copy and reserve EFI Confidential Computing secret area"
> + depends on EFI
> + default n

default is always "n", no need to list this.

> + help
> + Copy memory reserved by EFI for Confidential Computing (coco)
> + injected secrets, if EFI exposes such a table entry.

Why would you want to "copy" secret memory?

This sounds really odd here, it sounds like you are opening up a
security hole. Are you sure this is the correct text that everyone on
the "COCO" group agrees with?

> +
> + If you say Y here, the EFI stub copy the EFI secret area (if
> + available) and reserve it for use inside the kernel. This will
> + allow the virt/coo/efi_secret module to access the secrets.

What is "virt/coo/efi_secret"?

> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> index d0537573501e..fdada3fd5d9b 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ $(obj)/lib-%.o: $(srctree)/lib/%.c FORCE
> lib-$(CONFIG_EFI_GENERIC_STUB) += efi-stub.o fdt.o string.o \
> $(patsubst %.c,lib-%.o,$(efi-deps-y))
>
> +lib-$(CONFIG_EFI_COCO_SECRET) += coco.o
> lib-$(CONFIG_ARM) += arm32-stub.o
> lib-$(CONFIG_ARM64) += arm64-stub.o
> lib-$(CONFIG_X86) += x86-stub.o
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/coco.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/coco.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..bf546b6a3f72
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/coco.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +/*
> + * Confidential computing (coco) secret area handling
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2021 IBM Corporation
> + * Author: Dov Murik <dovmurik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/efi.h>
> +#include <linux/sizes.h>
> +#include <asm/efi.h>
> +
> +#include "efistub.h"
> +
> +#define LINUX_EFI_COCO_SECRET_TABLE_GUID \
> + EFI_GUID(0xadf956ad, 0xe98c, 0x484c, 0xae, 0x11, 0xb5, 0x1c, 0x7d, 0x33, 0x64, 0x47)
> +
> +/**
> + * struct efi_coco_secret_table - EFI config table that points to the
> + * confidential computing secret area. The guid
> + * LINUX_EFI_COCO_SECRET_TABLE_GUID holds this table.
> + * @base: Physical address of the EFI secret area
> + * @size: Size (in bytes) of the EFI secret area
> + */
> +struct efi_coco_secret_table {
> + u64 base;
> + u64 size;

__le64? Or is this really in host endian format?

> +} __attribute((packed));
> +
> +/*
> + * Create a copy of EFI's confidential computing secret area (if available) so
> + * that the secrets are accessible in the kernel after ExitBootServices.
> + */
> +void efi_copy_coco_secret_area(void)
> +{
> + efi_guid_t linux_secret_area_guid = LINUX_EFI_COCO_SECRET_AREA_GUID;
> + efi_status_t status;
> + struct efi_coco_secret_table *secret_table;
> + struct linux_efi_coco_secret_area *secret_area;
> +
> + secret_table = get_efi_config_table(LINUX_EFI_COCO_SECRET_TABLE_GUID);
> + if (!secret_table)
> + return;
> +
> + if (secret_table->size == 0 || secret_table->size >= SZ_4G)
> + return;
> +
> + /* Allocate space for the secret area and copy it */
> + status = efi_bs_call(allocate_pool, EFI_LOADER_DATA,
> + sizeof(*secret_area) + secret_table->size, (void **)&secret_area);
> +
> + if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
> + efi_err("Unable to allocate memory for confidential computing secret area copy\n");
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + secret_area->size = secret_table->size;
> + memcpy(secret_area->area, (void *)(unsigned long)secret_table->base, secret_table->size);

Why the double cast?

And you can treat this value as a "raw" pointer directly? No need to
map it at all? What could go wrong...

> +
> + status = efi_bs_call(install_configuration_table, &linux_secret_area_guid, secret_area);
> + if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
> + goto err_free;
> +
> + return;
> +
> +err_free:
> + efi_bs_call(free_pool, secret_area);

This memory is never freed when shutting down the system?

thanks,

greg k-h