linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC 45/62] mm: Add the encrypt

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:40:31 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     "Lendacky, Thomas" <Thomas.Lendacky@....com>
Cc:     Kai Huang <kai.huang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@...el.com>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "keyrings@...r.kernel.org" <keyrings@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 45/62] mm: Add the encrypt_mprotect() system call for MKTME

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 6:34 PM Lendacky, Thomas
<Thomas.Lendacky@....com> wrote:
>
> On 6/17/19 6:59 PM, Kai Huang wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 11:27 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:

> >
> > And yes from my reading (better to have AMD guys to confirm) SEV guest uses anonymous memory, but it
> > also pins all guest memory (by calling GUP from KVM -- SEV specifically introduced 2 KVM ioctls for
> > this purpose), since SEV architecturally cannot support swapping, migraiton of SEV-encrypted guest
> > memory, because SME/SEV also uses physical address as "tweak", and there's no way that kernel can
> > get or use SEV-guest's memory encryption key. In order to swap/migrate SEV-guest memory, we need SGX
> > EPC eviction/reload similar thing, which SEV doesn't have today.
>
> Yes, all the guest memory is currently pinned by calling GUP when creating
> an SEV guest.

Ick.

What happens if QEMU tries to read the memory?  Does it just see
ciphertext?  Is cache coherency lost if QEMU writes it?