The DebugSwap feature of SEV-ES provides a way for confidential guests to use data breakpoints. Its status is record in VMSA, and therefore attestation signatures depend on whether it is enabled or not. In order to avoid invalidating the signatures depending on the host machine, it was disabled by default (see commit 5abf6dceb066, "SEV: disable SEV-ES DebugSwap by default", 2024-03-09). However, we now have a new API to create SEV VMs that allows enabling DebugSwap based on what the user tells KVM to do, and we also changed the legacy KVM_SEV_ES_INIT API to never enable DebugSwap. It is therefore possible to re-enable the feature without breaking compatibility with kernels that pre-date the introduction of DebugSwap, so go ahead. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c index dc22b31faebd..1a11840facfb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static bool sev_es_enabled = true; module_param_named(sev_es, sev_es_enabled, bool, 0444); /* enable/disable SEV-ES DebugSwap support */ -static bool sev_es_debug_swap_enabled = false; +static bool sev_es_debug_swap_enabled = true; module_param_named(debug_swap, sev_es_debug_swap_enabled, bool, 0444); static u64 sev_supported_vmsa_features;
