Re: [PATCH v3 07/12] x86/tdx: Make TDX_HYPERCALL asm similar to TDX_MODULE_CALL

From: Huang, Kai
Date: Thu Jul 27 2023 - 19:05:50 EST


On Thu, 2023-07-27 at 20:10 +0300, kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 11:25:09PM +1200, Kai Huang wrote:
> >
> > Remove the __tdx_hypercall_ret() as __tdx_hypercall() already does so.
>
> Hm. So we now update struct on all VMCALLs. Is it a good idea? 
>

Do you mean we "unconditionally save output registers to the structure", right?

> We give
> more control to VMM where it is not needed. 
>

I don't quite follow this. Can you elaborate?

Do you worry about VMM being malicious and putting malicious values to the
registers?

> I would rather keep the struct
> read-only where possible.
>

We can achieve this if there's a clean way to do, but I don't see that.