Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, May 20, 2021, Tom Lendacky wrote: >> On 5/20/21 2:16 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote: >> > On Mon, May 17, 2021, Tom Lendacky wrote: >> >> On 5/14/21 6:06 PM, Peter Gonda wrote: >> >>> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 1:22 PM Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> Currently, an SEV-ES guest is terminated if the validation of the VMGEXIT >> >>>> exit code and parameters fail. Since the VMGEXIT instruction can be issued >> >>>> from userspace, even though userspace (likely) can't update the GHCB, >> >>>> don't allow userspace to be able to kill the guest. >> >>>> >> >>>> Return a #GP request through the GHCB when validation fails, rather than >> >>>> terminating the guest. >> >>> >> >>> Is this a gap in the spec? I don't see anything that details what >> >>> should happen if the correct fields for NAE are not set in the first >> >>> couple paragraphs of section 4 'GHCB Protocol'. >> >> >> >> No, I don't think the spec needs to spell out everything like this. The >> >> hypervisor is free to determine its course of action in this case. >> > >> > The hypervisor can decide whether to inject/return an error or kill the guest, >> > but what errors can be returned and how they're returned absolutely needs to be >> > ABI between guest and host, and to make the ABI vendor agnostic the GHCB spec >> > is the logical place to define said ABI. >> >> For now, that is all we have for versions 1 and 2 of the spec. We can >> certainly extend it in future versions if that is desired. >> >> I would suggest starting a thread on what we would like to see in the next >> version of the GHCB spec on the amd-sev-snp mailing list: >> >> amd-sev-snp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Will do, but in the meantime, I don't think we should merge a fix of any kind > until there is consensus on what the VMM behavior will be. IMO, fixing this in > upstream is not urgent; I highly doubt anyone is deploying SEV-ES in production > using a bleeding edge KVM. Sorry for resurrecting this old thread but were there any deveopments here? I may have missed something but last time I've checked a single "rep; vmmcall" from userspace was still crashing the guest. The issue, however, doesn't seem to reproduce with Vmware ESXi which probably means they're just skipping the instruction and not even injecting #GP (AFAIR, I don't have an environment to re-test handy). -- Vitaly
