Re: [PATCH v10 48/50] KVM: SEV: Provide support for SNP_GUEST_REQUEST NAE event

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On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 12:06 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [ add Ard for the SBOM sysfs ABI commentary ]
>
> Dionna Amalie Glaze wrote:
> [..]
> > > > My own plan for SEV-SNP was to have a bespoke signed measurement of
> > > > the UEFI in the GUID table, but that doesn't extend to TDX. If we're
> > > > looking more at an industry alignment on coRIM for SBOM formats (yes
> > > > please), then it'd be great to start getting that kind of info plumbed
> > > > to the user in a uniform way that doesn't have to rely on servers
> > > > providing the endorsements.
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://uefi.org/blog/firmware-sbom-proposal
> > >
> > > Honestly my first reaction for this ABI would be for a new file under
> > > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars or similar.
> >
> > For UEFI specifically that could make sense, yes. Not everyone has
> > been mounting efivars, so it's been a bit of an uphill battle for that
> > one.
>
> I wonder what the concern is with mounting efivarfs vs configfs? In any
> event this seems distinct enough to be its own /sys/firmware/efi/sbom
> file. I would defer to Ard, but I think SBOM is a generally useful
> concept that would be out of place as a blob returned from configfs-tsm.
>
> > Still there's the matter of cached TDI RIMs. NVIDIA would have
>
> I am not immediatly sure what a "TDI RIM" is?
>

I might just be making up terms. Any trusted hardware device that has
its own attestation will (hopefully) have signed reference
measurements, or a Reference Integrity Manifest as TCG calls them.

> > everyone send attestation requests to their servers every quote
> > request in the NRAS architecture, but we're looking at other ways to
>
> "NRAS" does not parse for me either.
>

That would be this https://docs.attestation.nvidia.com/api-docs/nras.html

> > provide reliable attestation without a third party service, albeit
> > with slightly different security properties.
>
> Setting the above confusion aside, I would just say that in general yes,
> the kernel needs to understand its role in an end-to-end attestation
> architecture that is not beholden to a single vendor, but also allows
> the kernel to enforce ABI stability / mitigate regressions based on
> binary format changes.
>

I'm mainly holding on to hope that I don't have to introduce a new
runtime dependency on a service that gives a source of truth about the
software that's running in the VM.
If we can have a GUID table with a flexible size that the host can
request of the guest, then we can version ABI changes with new GUID
entries.
It's a big enough value space without vanity naming opportunities that
we can pretty easily make changes without incurring any guest kernel
changes.

-- 
-Dionna Glaze, PhD (she/her)





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