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| author | Jacky Li <jackyli@google.com> | 2022-08-16 19:32:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2022-08-26 18:50:07 +0800 |
| commit | d8da2da21fdb1f5964c11c00f0cc84fb0edf31d0 (patch) | |
| tree | ce92f6542ff1fa89c875eaa5462f6b97c5954ce7 /Documentation/virt | |
| parent | d5eb916d889f12f27275e2049b9c4df43b7cfa13 (diff) | |
crypto: ccp - Initialize PSP when reading psp data file failed
Currently the OS fails the PSP initialization when the file specified at
'init_ex_path' does not exist or has invalid content. However the SEV
spec just requires users to allocate 32KB of 0xFF in the file, which can
be taken care of by the OS easily.
To improve the robustness during the PSP init, leverage the retry
mechanism and continue the init process:
Before the first INIT_EX call, if the content is invalid or missing,
continue the process by feeding those contents into PSP instead of
aborting. PSP will then override it with 32KB 0xFF and return
SEV_RET_SECURE_DATA_INVALID status code. In the second INIT_EX call,
this 32KB 0xFF content will then be fed and PSP will write the valid
data to the file.
In order to do this, sev_read_init_ex_file should only be called once
for the first INIT_EX call. Calling it again for the second INIT_EX call
will cause the invalid file content overwriting the valid 32KB 0xFF data
provided by PSP in the first INIT_EX call.
Co-developed-by: Peter Gonda <pgonda@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Gonda <pgonda@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacky Li <jackyli@google.com>
Reported-by: Alper Gun <alpergun@google.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst index 2d307811978c..935aaeb97fe6 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst @@ -89,9 +89,8 @@ context. In a typical workflow, this command should be the first command issued. The firmware can be initialized either by using its own non-volatile storage or the OS can manage the NV storage for the firmware using the module parameter -``init_ex_path``. The file specified by ``init_ex_path`` must exist. To create -a new NV storage file allocate the file with 32KB bytes of 0xFF as required by -the SEV spec. +``init_ex_path``. If the file specified by ``init_ex_path`` does not exist or +is invalid, the OS will create or override the file with output from PSP. Returns: 0 on success, -negative on error |