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From: "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>
To: "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	"Sean Christopherson" <seanjc@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM guest private memory
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 13:42:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a979ba51-8693-43a0-bebb-b8b1938ff74c@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef14702f-4f31-8784-8583-0b79bb7d0a07@intel.com>



On Thu, Sep 2, 2021, at 12:07 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 9/2/21 11:57 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 2021, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >> On 9/2/21 2:27 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 09:07:59AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >>>> In principle, you could actually initialize a TDX guest with all of its
> >>>> memory shared and all of it mapped in the host IOMMU.
> >>> Not sure how this works in TDX, but in SEV code fetches are always
> >>> treated as encrypted. So this approach would not work with SEV, not to
> >>> speak about attestation, which will not work with this approach either
> >>> :)
> >>>
> >> Oof.
> > TDX is kinda similar.  _All_ accesses are private if paging is disabled because
> > the shared bit is either bit 48 or bit 51 in the GPA, i.e. can't be reached if
> > paging is disabled.  The vCPU is hardcoded to start in unpaged protected mode,
> > so at least some amount of guest memory needs to be private.
> 
> That's a rule we should definitely add to our page table checker.  Just
> like how we can look for W+X, we should also look for Shared+X.
> 

The only case I can thing of where the TDX vs SEV rule matters is for some mildly crazy user who wants to run user code out of an unencrypted DAX device (or virtio-fs, I guess).  We can save that for another year :)

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-02 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-24  0:52 [RFC] KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM guest private memory Sean Christopherson
2021-08-24 10:48 ` Yu Zhang
2021-08-26  0:35   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-26 13:23     ` Yu Zhang
2021-08-26 10:15 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-26 17:05   ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-08-26 21:26     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-27 18:24       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-08-27 22:28         ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-31 19:12           ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-31 20:45             ` Sean Christopherson
2021-09-01  7:51               ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-27  2:31   ` Yu Zhang
2021-08-31 19:08     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-31 20:01       ` Andi Kleen
2021-08-31 20:15         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-31 20:39           ` Andi Kleen
2021-09-01  3:34             ` Yu Zhang
2021-09-01  4:53     ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-01  7:12       ` Tian, Kevin
2021-09-01 10:24       ` Yu Zhang
2021-09-01 16:07         ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-01 16:27           ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-02  8:34             ` Yu Zhang
2021-09-02  8:44               ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-02 11:02                 ` Yu Zhang
2021-09-02  8:19           ` Yu Zhang
2021-09-02 18:41             ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-07  1:33             ` Yan Zhao
2021-09-02  9:27           ` Joerg Roedel
2021-09-02 18:41             ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-02 18:57               ` Sean Christopherson
2021-09-02 19:07                 ` Dave Hansen
2021-09-02 20:42                   ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2021-08-27 22:18   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-31 19:07     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-31 21:54       ` Sean Christopherson
2021-09-01  8:09         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01 15:54           ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-01 16:16             ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01 17:09               ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-01 16:18             ` James Bottomley
2021-09-01 16:22               ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01 16:31                 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-01 16:37                   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01 16:45                     ` James Bottomley
2021-09-01 17:08                       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01 17:50                         ` Sean Christopherson
2021-09-01 17:53                           ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-01 17:08               ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-01 17:13                 ` James Bottomley
2021-09-02 10:18                 ` Joerg Roedel
2021-09-01 18:24               ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-01 19:26               ` Dave Hansen
2021-09-07 15:00               ` Tom Lendacky
2021-09-01  4:58       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-01  7:49         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-02 18:47 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-02 20:33   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-09-03 19:14     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-03 19:15       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-09-10 17:18         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-15 19:58           ` Chao Peng
2021-09-15 13:51             ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-15 14:29               ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-15 14:59                 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-15 15:35                   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-15 20:04                   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-15 14:11             ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-16  7:36               ` Chao Peng
2021-09-16  9:24               ` Paolo Bonzini

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