Re: [PATCH 4/9] drivers: hv: Mark shared pages unencrypted in SEV-SNP enlightened guest

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On 6/5/2023 8:54 PM, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
@@ -402,7 +417,14 @@ int hv_common_cpu_die(unsigned int cpu)
local_irq_restore(flags); - kfree(mem);
+	if (hv_isolation_type_en_snp()) {
+		ret = set_memory_encrypted((unsigned long)mem, pgcount);
+		if (ret)
+			pr_warn("Hyper-V: Failed to encrypt input arg on cpu%d: %d\n",
+				cpu, ret);
+		/* It's unsafe to free 'mem'. */
+		return 0;
Why is it unsafe to free 'mem' if ret == 0? Also, why don't we want to
proparate non-zero 'ret' from here to fail CPU offlining?


Based on Michael's patch the mem will not be freed during cpu offline.
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/87cz2j5zrc.fsf@xxxxxxxxxx/
So I think it's unnessary to encrypt the mem again here.



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