Re: [PATCH v6 02/13] confidential guest support: Introduce new confidential guest support class

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 03:44:57PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> Several architectures have mechanisms which are designed to protect guest
> memory from interference or eavesdropping by a compromised hypervisor.  AMD
> SEV does this with in-chip memory encryption and Intel's MKTME can do
> similar things.  POWER's Protected Execution Framework (PEF) accomplishes a
> similar goal using an ultravisor and new memory protection features,
> instead of encryption.
> 
> To (partially) unify handling for these, this introduces a new
> ConfidentialGuestSupport QOM base class.  "Confidential" is kind of vague,
> but "confidential computing" seems to be the buzzword about these schemes,
> and "secure" or "protected" are often used in connection to unrelated
> things (such as hypervisor-from-guest or guest-from-guest security).
> 
> The "support" in the name is significant because in at least some of the
> cases it requires the guest to take specific actions in order to protect
> itself from hypervisor eavesdropping.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
>  backends/confidential-guest-support.c     | 30 +++++++++++++++
>  backends/meson.build                      |  1 +
>  include/exec/confidential-guest-support.h | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/qemu/typedefs.h                   |  1 +
>  target/i386/sev.c                         |  3 +-
>  5 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 backends/confidential-guest-support.c
>  create mode 100644 include/exec/confidential-guest-support.h
> 
> diff --git a/backends/confidential-guest-support.c b/backends/confidential-guest-support.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..2c7793c74f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/backends/confidential-guest-support.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> +/*
> + * QEMU Confidential Guest support
> + *
> + * Copyright: David Gibson, Red Hat Inc. 2020
> + *
> + * Authors:
> + *  David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> + *
> + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or
> + * later.  See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
> + *
> + */
> +
> +#include "qemu/osdep.h"
> +
> +#include "exec/confidential-guest-support.h"
> +
> +static const TypeInfo confidential_guest_support_info = {
> +    .parent = TYPE_OBJECT,
> +    .name = TYPE_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT,
> +    .class_size = sizeof(ConfidentialGuestSupportClass),
> +    .instance_size = sizeof(ConfidentialGuestSupport),
> +};
> +
> +static void confidential_guest_support_register_types(void)
> +{
> +    type_register_static(&confidential_guest_support_info);
> +}
> +
> +type_init(confidential_guest_support_register_types)

This should all be replaced by OBJECT_DEFINE_TYPE

> diff --git a/backends/meson.build b/backends/meson.build
> index 484456ece7..d4221831fc 100644
> --- a/backends/meson.build
> +++ b/backends/meson.build
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ softmmu_ss.add([files(
>    'rng-builtin.c',
>    'rng-egd.c',
>    'rng.c',
> +  'confidential-guest-support.c',
>  ), numa])
>  
>  softmmu_ss.add(when: 'CONFIG_POSIX', if_true: files('rng-random.c'))
> diff --git a/include/exec/confidential-guest-support.h b/include/exec/confidential-guest-support.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..f9cf170802
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/exec/confidential-guest-support.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
> +/*
> + * QEMU Confidential Guest support
> + *   This interface describes the common pieces between various
> + *   schemes for protecting guest memory or other state against a
> + *   compromised hypervisor.  This includes memory encryption (AMD's
> + *   SEV and Intel's MKTME) or special protection modes (PEF on POWER,
> + *   or PV on s390x).
> + *
> + * Copyright: David Gibson, Red Hat Inc. 2020
> + *
> + * Authors:
> + *  David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> + *
> + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or
> + * later.  See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
> + *
> + */
> +#ifndef QEMU_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT_H
> +#define QEMU_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT_H
> +
> +#ifndef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
> +
> +#include "qom/object.h"
> +
> +#define TYPE_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT "confidential-guest-support"
> +#define CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT(obj)                                    \
> +    OBJECT_CHECK(ConfidentialGuestSupport, (obj),                          \
> +                 TYPE_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT)
> +#define CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT_CLASS(klass)                            \
> +    OBJECT_CLASS_CHECK(ConfidentialGuestSupportClass, (klass),             \
> +                       TYPE_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT)
> +#define CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT_GET_CLASS(obj)                          \
> +    OBJECT_GET_CLASS(ConfidentialGuestSupportClass, (obj),                 \
> +                     TYPE_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT)
> +

This should all be replaced by  OBJECT_DECLARE_TYPE


> +struct ConfidentialGuestSupport {
> +    Object parent;
> +};
> +
> +typedef struct ConfidentialGuestSupportClass {
> +    ObjectClass parent;
> +} ConfidentialGuestSupportClass;
> +
> +#endif /* !CONFIG_USER_ONLY */
> +
> +#endif /* QEMU_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT_H */

Regards,
Daniel
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