Re: [PATCH v10 48/50] KVM: SEV: Provide support for SNP_GUEST_REQUEST NAE event

[Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>]

Dionna Amalie Glaze wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 12:06 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > [ add Ard for the SBOM sysfs ABI commentary ]
> >
> > Dionna Amalie Glaze wrote:
> > [..]
> > > > > My own plan for SEV-SNP was to have a bespoke signed measurement of
> > > > > the UEFI in the GUID table, but that doesn't extend to TDX. If we're
> > > > > looking more at an industry alignment on coRIM for SBOM formats (yes
> > > > > please), then it'd be great to start getting that kind of info plumbed
> > > > > to the user in a uniform way that doesn't have to rely on servers
> > > > > providing the endorsements.
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] https://uefi.org/blog/firmware-sbom-proposal
> > > >
> > > > Honestly my first reaction for this ABI would be for a new file under
> > > > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars or similar.
> > >
> > > For UEFI specifically that could make sense, yes. Not everyone has
> > > been mounting efivars, so it's been a bit of an uphill battle for that
> > > one.
> >
> > I wonder what the concern is with mounting efivarfs vs configfs? In any
> > event this seems distinct enough to be its own /sys/firmware/efi/sbom
> > file. I would defer to Ard, but I think SBOM is a generally useful
> > concept that would be out of place as a blob returned from configfs-tsm.
> >
> > > Still there's the matter of cached TDI RIMs. NVIDIA would have
> >
> > I am not immediatly sure what a "TDI RIM" is?
> >
> 
> I might just be making up terms. Any trusted hardware device that has
> its own attestation will (hopefully) have signed reference
> measurements, or a Reference Integrity Manifest as TCG calls them.

Ah, ok.

> 
> > > everyone send attestation requests to their servers every quote
> > > request in the NRAS architecture, but we're looking at other ways to
> >
> > "NRAS" does not parse for me either.
> >
> 
> That would be this https://docs.attestation.nvidia.com/api-docs/nras.html

Thanks!

> > > provide reliable attestation without a third party service, albeit
> > > with slightly different security properties.
> >
> > Setting the above confusion aside, I would just say that in general yes,
> > the kernel needs to understand its role in an end-to-end attestation
> > architecture that is not beholden to a single vendor, but also allows
> > the kernel to enforce ABI stability / mitigate regressions based on
> > binary format changes.
> >
> 
> I'm mainly holding on to hope that I don't have to introduce a new
> runtime dependency on a service that gives a source of truth about the
> software that's running in the VM.
> If we can have a GUID table with a flexible size that the host can
> request of the guest, then we can version ABI changes with new GUID
> entries.
> It's a big enough value space without vanity naming opportunities that
> we can pretty easily make changes without incurring any guest kernel
> changes.

So it's not only SBOM that you are concerned about, but instead want to
have a one stop shop for auxiliary evidence and get the vendors agree on
following the same GUID+blob precedent that is already there for the AMD
cert chain? That sounds reasonable, but I still feel it should be
limited to things that do not fit into an existing ABI namespace.

...unless its evidence / material that only a TVM would ever need.