On 26.06.23 16:12, Kai Huang wrote:
TDX memory has integrity and confidentiality protections. Violations of this integrity protection are supposed to only affect TDX operations and are never supposed to affect the host kernel itself. In other words, the host kernel should never, itself, see machine checks induced by the TDX integrity hardware. Alas, the first few generations of TDX hardware have an erratum. A partial write to a TDX private memory cacheline will silently "poison" the line. Subsequent reads will consume the poison and generate a machine check. According to the TDX hardware spec, neither of these things should have happened. Virtually all kernel memory accesses operations happen in full cachelines. In practice, writing a "byte" of memory usually reads a 64 byte cacheline of memory, modifies it, then writes the whole line back. Those operations do not trigger this problem. This problem is triggered by "partial" writes where a write transaction of less than cacheline lands at the memory controller. The CPU does these via non-temporal write instructions (like MOVNTI), or through UC/WC memory mappings. The issue can also be triggered away from the CPU by devices doing partial writes via DMA. With this erratum, there are additional things need to be done. Similar to other CPU bugs, use a CPU bug bit to indicate this erratum, and detect this erratum during early boot. Note this bug reflects the hardware thus it is detected regardless of whether the kernel is built with TDX support or not. Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Cheers, David / dhildenb
