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
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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 thatAvoid 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).
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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