linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/boot/compressed/64: Check SEV encryption in 64-bit boot-path

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Date:   Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:59:57 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Cc:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Martin Radev <martin.b.radev@...il.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/boot/compressed/64: Check SEV encryption in
 64-bit boot-path

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 05:31:06PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> Is it possible to take advantage of this to make the check independent
> of the original page tables? i.e. switch to the new pagetables, then
> write into .data or .bss the opcodes for a function that does
> 	movabs	$imm64, %rax
> 	jmp	*%rdi	// avoid using stack for the return
> filling in the imm64 with the RDRAND value, and then try to execute it.
> If the C-bit value is wrong, this will probably crash, and at any rate
> shouldn't return with the correct value in %rax.

That could work, but is not reliable. When the C bit is wrong the CPU
would essentially execute random data, which could also be a valid
instruction stream. A crash is not guaranteed.

Regards,

	Joerg