If the management layer tries to inject a secret, it gets an empty response in case the guest doesn't have SEV enabled, or the binary is built without SEV: { "execute": "sev-inject-launch-secret", "arguments": { "packet-header": "mypkt", "secret": "mypass", "gpa": 4294959104 } } { "return": { } } Make it clearer by returning an error: { "execute": "sev-inject-launch-secret", "arguments": { "packet-header": "mypkt", "secret": "mypass", "gpa": 4294959104 } } { "error": { "class": "GenericError", "desc": "SEV not enabled for guest" } } Note: we will remove the sev_inject_launch_secret() stub in few commits, so we don't bother to add error_setg() there. Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Connor Kuehl <ckuehl@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx> --- target/i386/monitor.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/target/i386/monitor.c b/target/i386/monitor.c index eabbeb9be95..ea836678f51 100644 --- a/target/i386/monitor.c +++ b/target/i386/monitor.c @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ #include "monitor/hmp-target.h" #include "monitor/hmp.h" #include "qapi/qmp/qdict.h" +#include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h" #include "sysemu/kvm.h" #include "sysemu/sev.h" #include "qapi/error.h" @@ -743,6 +744,10 @@ void qmp_sev_inject_launch_secret(const char *packet_hdr, bool has_gpa, uint64_t gpa, Error **errp) { + if (!sev_enabled()) { + error_setg(errp, "SEV not enabled for guest"); + return; + } if (!has_gpa) { uint8_t *data; struct sev_secret_area *area; -- 2.31.1