Re: [PATCH v1 21/26] crypto: ccp: Add panic notifier for SEV/SNP firmware shutdown on kdump

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Hello Boris,

On 1/21/2024 5:49 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 10:19:49AM -0600, Michael Roth wrote:
From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>

Add a kdump safe version of sev_firmware_shutdown() registered as a
crash_kexec_post_notifier, which is invoked during panic/crash to do
SEV/SNP shutdown. This is required for transitioning all IOMMU pages
to reclaim/hypervisor state, otherwise re-init of IOMMU pages during
crashdump kernel boot fails and panics the crashdump kernel. This
panic notifier runs in atomic context, hence it ensures not to
acquire any locks/mutexes and polls for PSP command completion
instead of depending on PSP command completion interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
[mdr: remove use of "we" in comments]
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@xxxxxxx>
Cleanups ontop, see if the below works too. Especially:

* I've zapped the WBINVD before the TMR pages are freed because
__sev_snp_shutdown_locked() will WBINVD anyway.

This flush is required for TMR, as TMR is encrypted and it needs to be flushed from cache before being reclaimed and freed, therefore this flush is required.

SNP_SHUTDOWN_EX may additionally require wbinvd + DF_FLUSH, therefore there is another WBINVD in __sev_snp_shutdown_locked().


* The mutex_is_locked() check in snp_shutdown_on_panic() is silly
because the panic notifier runs on one CPU anyway.

But, what if there is an active command on the PSP when panic occurs, the mutex will already be acquired in such a case and we can't issue another PSP command if there is an active PSP command, so i believe this check is required.

Thanks, Ashish





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