Thread (82 messages) 82 messages, 5 authors, 2016-09-16

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/20] x86: Insure that memory areas are encrypted when possible

From: Tom Lendacky <hidden>
Date: 2016-09-14 14:11:36
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On 09/12/2016 11:33 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:05:36AM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
quoted
I can look into that.  The reason I put this here is this is all the
early page fault support that is very specific to this file. I modified
an existing static function to take advantage of the mapping support.
Yeah, but all this code is SME-specific and doesn't belong there.
AFAICT, it uses global/public symbols so there shouldn't be a problem to
have it in mem_encrypt.c.
Ok, I'll look into moving this into mem_encrypt.c. I'd like to avoid
duplicating code so I may have to make that static function external
unless I find a better way.

Thanks,
Tom
quoted
Hmmm, maybe... With the change to the early_memremap() the initrd is now
identified as BOOT_DATA in relocate_initrd() and so it will be mapped
and copied as non-encyrpted data. But since it was encrypted before the
call to relocate_initrd() it will copy encrypted bytes which will later
be accessed encrypted. That isn't clear though, so I'll rework
reserve_initrd() to perform the sme_early_mem_enc() once at the end
whether the initrd is re-located or not.
Makes sense.
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