If the CPU family/model/stepping are provided on the command line, but the firmware is being automatically extracted from the libvirt guest, we try to build the VMSA too early. This leads to an exception trying to parse the firmware that has not been loaded yet. We must delay building the VMSA in that scenario. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/virt-qemu-sev-validate | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/virt-qemu-sev-validate b/tools/virt-qemu-sev-validate index c279741004..67edbd085f 100755 --- a/tools/virt-qemu-sev-validate +++ b/tools/virt-qemu-sev-validate @@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ class LibvirtConfidentialVM(ConfidentialVM): "kernel/initrd/cmdline not provided but kernel " "measurement is enabled") - def load_domain(self, uri, id_name_uuid, secure, ignore_config): + def load_domain(self, uri, id_name_uuid, build_vmsa, secure, ignore_config): self.conn = libvirt.open(uri) remote = socket.getfqdn() != self.conn.getHostname() @@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ class LibvirtConfidentialVM(ConfidentialVM): capsxml = self.conn.getCapabilities() capsdoc = etree.fromstring(capsxml) - if self.is_sev_es() and self.vmsa_cpu0 is None: + if self.is_sev_es() and build_vmsa: if secure: raise InsecureUsageException( "Using CPU SKU from capabilities is not secure") @@ -1263,17 +1263,19 @@ def attest(args): if args.vmsa_cpu1 is not None: cvm.load_vmsa_cpu1(args.vmsa_cpu1) - if args.cpu_family is not None: - cvm.build_vmsas(args.cpu_family, - args.cpu_model, - args.cpu_stepping) - if args.domain is not None: + build_vmsa = args.vmsa_cpu0 is None and args.cpu_family is None cvm.load_domain(args.connect, args.domain, + build_vmsa, not args.insecure, args.ignore_config) + if args.cpu_family is not None: + cvm.build_vmsas(args.cpu_family, + args.cpu_model, + args.cpu_stepping) + cvm.attest() if not args.quiet: print("OK: Looks good to me") -- 2.41.0