Thread (123 messages) 123 messages, 8 authors, 2021-09-15

Re: [PATCH Part1 v5 29/38] x86/boot: add a pointer to Confidential Computing blob in bootparams

From: Michael Roth <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-30 15:56:20
Also in: kvm, linux-efi, linux-mm, lkml, platform-driver-x86

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 03:51:29PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 10:19:24AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
quoted
From: Michael Roth <redacted>

The previously defined Confidential Computing blob is provided to the
kernel via a setup_data structure or EFI config table entry. Currently
these are both checked for by boot/compressed kernel to access the
CPUID table address within it for use with SEV-SNP CPUID enforcement.

To also enable SEV-SNP CPUID enforcement for the run-time kernel,
similar early access to the CPUID table is needed early on while it's
still using the identity-mapped page table set up by boot/compressed,
where global pointers need to be accessed via fixup_pointer().

This is much of an issue for accessing setup_data, and the EFI config
table helper code currently used in boot/compressed *could* be used in
this case as well since they both rely on identity-mapping. However, it
has some reliance on EFI helpers/string constants that would need to be
accessed via fixup_pointer(), and fixing it up while making it
shareable between boot/compressed and run-time kernel is fragile and
introduces a good bit of uglyness.

Instead, this patch adds a boot_params->cc_blob_address pointer that
Avoid having "This patch" or "This commit" in the commit message. It is
tautologically useless.

Also, do

$ git grep 'This patch' Documentation/process

for more details.
quoted
boot/compressed can initialize so that the run-time kernel can access
the prelocated CC blob that way instead.

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h | 1 +
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h  | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
index 981fe923a59f..53e9b0620d96 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ static void sanitize_boot_params(struct boot_params *boot_params)
 			BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(hdr),
 			BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(e820_table),
 			BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(eddbuf),
+			BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(cc_blob_address),
 		};
 
 		memset(&scratch, 0, sizeof(scratch));
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
index 1ac5acca72ce..bea5cdcdf532 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ struct boot_params {
 	__u32 ext_ramdisk_image;			/* 0x0c0 */
 	__u32 ext_ramdisk_size;				/* 0x0c4 */
 	__u32 ext_cmd_line_ptr;				/* 0x0c8 */
-	__u8  _pad4[116];				/* 0x0cc */
+	__u8  _pad4[112];				/* 0x0cc */
+	__u32 cc_blob_address;				/* 0x13c */
So I know I've heard grub being mentioned in conjunction with this: if
you are ever going to pass this through the boot loader, then you'd need
to update Documentation/x86/zero-page.rst too to state that this field
can be written by the boot loader too.
Right, I think we had discussed this back in v3 or so. But for grub, or
other bootloaders, the idea would be for them to use pass the CC blob
via a struct setup_data corresponding to SETUP_CC_BLOB, introduced in:

  x86/boot: Add Confidential Computing type to setup_data

the boot_params field is only used internally to allow boot/compressed
to hand the CC blob over to kernel proper without kernel proper needing
to rescan for EFI blob (and thus needing all the efi config parsing
stuff).
-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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