From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-coco@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86/tdx: Use ReportFatalError to report missing SEPT_VE_DISABLE
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:18:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <795d6e1d-c79c-b079-3412-69ca2f8ee874@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221215171254.3v4maexfhkdnbfk2@box.shutemov.name>
On 12/15/22 09:12, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> Getting *all* users of panic this magic ability would be a lot better
>> than giving it to one call-site of panic().
>>
>> I'm all for making the panic() path as short and simple as possible, but
>> it would be nice if this fancy hypercall would get used in more than one
>> spot.
> Well, I don't see an obvious way to integrate this into panic().
>
> There is panic_notifier_list and it kinda/sorta works, see the patch
> below.
>
> But it breaks panic_notifier_list contract: the callback will never return
> and no other callback will be able to do their stuff. panic_timeout is
> also broken.
>
> So ReportFatalError() is no good for the task. And I don't have anything
> else :/
Do we *really* have to do a hard stop when SEPT_VE_DISABLE is missing?
Wouldn't it be simpler to just defer the check until we can spit out a
sane error message about it?
Or is there too much security exposure by continuing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-15 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-09 13:25 [PATCH 0/4] x86/tdx: Changes for TDX guest initialization Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-09 13:25 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86/tdx: Expand __tdx_hypercall() to handle more arguments Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-13 22:44 ` Dave Hansen
2022-12-09 13:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86/tdx: Use ReportFatalError to report missing SEPT_VE_DISABLE Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-09 15:42 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-12-09 17:06 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-09 20:51 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-12-12 16:10 ` Dave Hansen
2022-12-12 16:37 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-12-12 16:39 ` Dave Hansen
2022-12-13 23:06 ` Dave Hansen
2022-12-15 17:12 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-15 18:18 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2022-12-15 18:51 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-15 21:09 ` Dave Hansen
2022-12-16 2:38 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-16 15:22 ` Reshetova, Elena
2022-12-09 13:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86/tdx: Relax SEPT_VE_DISABLE check for debug TD Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-09 15:45 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-12-09 17:08 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-13 23:13 ` Dave Hansen
2022-12-15 15:40 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-09 13:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86/tdx: Disable NOTIFY_ENABLES Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-09 15:50 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-12-09 17:10 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-12-13 23:17 ` Dave Hansen
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