From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: "David Gibson" <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
pasic@linux.ibm.com, brijesh.singh@amd.com, pair@us.ibm.com,
dgilbert@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, andi.kleen@intel.com,
qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Marcelo Tosatti" <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
"Greg Kurz" <groug@kaod.org>,
frankja@linux.ibm.com, thuth@redhat.com,
mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, richard.henderson@linaro.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Marcel Apfelbaum" <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>,
"Eduardo Habkost" <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
david@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, qemu-s390x@nongnu.org,
pragyansri.pathi@intel.com, jun.nakajima@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 13/13] s390: Recognize confidential-guest-support option
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:48:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3af9c974-d4ab-06e6-74b8-e0d47be5ab98@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210112123607.39597e3d.cohuck@redhat.com>
On 12.01.21 12:36, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:15:26 +0100
> Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12.01.21 05:45, David Gibson wrote:
>>> At least some s390 cpu models support "Protected Virtualization" (PV),
>>> a mechanism to protect guests from eavesdropping by a compromised
>>> hypervisor.
>>>
>>> This is similar in function to other mechanisms like AMD's SEV and
>>> POWER's PEF, which are controlled by the "confidential-guest-support"
>>> machine option. s390 is a slightly special case, because we already
>>> supported PV, simply by using a CPU model with the required feature
>>> (S390_FEAT_UNPACK).
>>>
>>> To integrate this with the option used by other platforms, we
>>> implement the following compromise:
>>>
>>> - When the confidential-guest-support option is set, s390 will
>>> recognize it, verify that the CPU can support PV (failing if not)
>>> and set virtio default options necessary for encrypted or protected
>>> guests, as on other platforms. i.e. if confidential-guest-support
>>> is set, we will either create a guest capable of entering PV mode,
>>> or fail outright.
>>>
>>> - If confidential-guest-support is not set, guests might still be
>>> able to enter PV mode, if the CPU has the right model. This may be
>>> a little surprising, but shouldn't actually be harmful.
>>>
>>> To start a guest supporting Protected Virtualization using the new
>>> option use the command line arguments:
>>> -object s390-pv-guest,id=pv0 -machine confidential-guest-support=pv0
>>
>>
>> This results in
>>
>> [cborntra@t35lp61 qemu]$ qemu-system-s390x -enable-kvm -nographic -m 2G -kernel ~/full.normal
>> **
>> ERROR:../qom/object.c:317:type_initialize: assertion failed: (parent->instance_size <= ti->instance_size)
>> Bail out! ERROR:../qom/object.c:317:type_initialize: assertion failed: (parent->instance_size <= ti->instance_size)
>> Aborted (core dumped)
>>
>
>>> +static const TypeInfo s390_pv_guest_info = {
>>> + .parent = TYPE_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT,
>>> + .name = TYPE_S390_PV_GUEST,
>>> + .instance_size = sizeof(S390PVGuestState),
>>> + .interfaces = (InterfaceInfo[]) {
>>> + { TYPE_USER_CREATABLE },
>>> + { }
>>> + }
>>> +};
>
> I think this needs TYPE_OBJECT in .parent and
> TYPE_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT as an interface to fix the crash.
It fixes the crash but it does not work:
qemu-system-s390x -enable-kvm -nographic -m 2G -kernel ~/image -object s390-pv-guest,id=pv0 -machine confidential-guest-support=pv0
qemu-system-s390x: Invalid parameter type for 'confidential-guest-support', expected: confidential-guest-support
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-12 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-12 4:44 [PATCH v6 00/13] Generalize memory encryption models David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:44 ` [PATCH v6 01/13] qom: Allow optional sugar props David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:44 ` [PATCH v6 02/13] confidential guest support: Introduce new confidential guest support class David Gibson
2021-01-12 9:46 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-01-13 2:09 ` David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:44 ` [PATCH v6 03/13] sev: Remove false abstraction of flash encryption David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:44 ` [PATCH v6 04/13] confidential guest support: Move side effect out of machine_set_memory_encryption() David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 05/13] confidential guest support: Rework the "memory-encryption" property David Gibson
[not found] ` <20210112115959.2c042dbb@bahia.lan>
2021-01-13 0:50 ` David Gibson
2021-01-13 12:03 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 06/13] sev: Add Error ** to sev_kvm_init() David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 07/13] confidential guest support: Introduce cgs "ready" flag David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 08/13] confidential guest support: Move SEV initialization into arch specific code David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 09/13] confidential guest support: Update documentation David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 10/13] spapr: Add PEF based confidential guest support David Gibson
2021-01-12 7:56 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-01-12 8:36 ` David Gibson
2021-01-12 9:52 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-01-12 9:56 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-01-13 0:52 ` David Gibson
[not found] ` <20210112122750.5dcd995c@bahia.lan>
2021-01-13 0:56 ` David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 11/13] spapr: PEF: prevent migration David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 12/13] confidential guest support: Alter virtio default properties for protected guests David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 13/13] s390: Recognize confidential-guest-support option David Gibson
2021-01-12 8:15 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-01-12 11:36 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-01-12 11:48 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2021-01-12 11:49 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-01-13 0:57 ` David Gibson
2021-01-13 6:57 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-01-13 23:56 ` David Gibson
2021-01-12 9:54 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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