Re: [PATCH v10 21/45] x86/mm: Add support to validate memory when changing C-bit

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Feb 11 2022 - 09:55:35 EST


+ Kirill.

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 12:10:15PM -0600, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> @@ -2012,8 +2013,22 @@ static int __set_memory_enc_pgtable(unsigned long addr, int numpages, bool enc)
> */
> cpa_flush(&cpa, !this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SME_COHERENT));
>
> + /*
> + * To maintain the security guarantees of SEV-SNP guests, make sure
> + * to invalidate the memory before clearing the encryption attribute.
> + */
> + if (!enc)
> + snp_set_memory_shared(addr, numpages);
> +
> ret = __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, 1);
>
> + /*
> + * Now that memory is mapped encrypted in the page table, validate it
> + * so that it is consistent with the above page state.
> + */
> + if (!ret && enc)
> + snp_set_memory_private(addr, numpages);
> +
> /*
> * After changing the encryption attribute, we need to flush TLBs again
> * in case any speculative TLB caching occurred (but no need to flush
> --

Right, as tglx rightfully points out here:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/875ypyvz07.ffs@tglx

this piece of code needs careful coordinated design so that it is clean
for both SEV and TDX.

First, as we've said here:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/1d77e91c-e151-7846-6cd4-6264236ca5ae@xxxxxxxxx

we'd need generic functions which turn a pgprot into an encrypted or
decrypted pgprot on both SEV and TDX so we could do:

cc_pgprot_enc()
cc_pgprot_dec()

which does the required conversion on each guest type.

Also, I think adding required functions to x86_platform.guest. is a very
nice way to solve the ugly if (guest_type) querying all over the place.

Also, I was thinking of sme_me_mask and the corresponding
tdx_shared_mask I threw into the mix here:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/YgFIaJ8ijgQQ04Nv@xxxxxxx

and we should simply add those without ifdeffery but unconditionally.

Simply have them always present. They will have !0 values on the
respective guest types and 0 otherwise. This should simplify a lot of
code and another unconditionally present u64 won't be the end of the
world.

Any other aspect I'm missing?

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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