linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add SEV_INIT

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Date:   Mon, 1 Nov 2021 09:31:30 -0700
From:   Marc Orr <marcorr@...gle.com>
To:     Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com>
Cc:     Thomas.Lendacky@....com, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        John Allen <john.allen@....com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add SEV_INIT_EX support

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 10:57 AM Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> SEV_INIT requires users to unlock their SPI bus for the PSP's non
> volatile (NV) storage. Users may wish to lock their SPI bus for numerous
> reasons, to support this the PSP firmware supports SEV_INIT_EX. INIT_EX
> allows the firmware to use a region of memory for its NV storage leaving
> the kernel responsible for actually storing the data in a persistent
> way. This series adds a new module parameter to ccp allowing users to
> specify a path to a file for use as the PSP's NV storage. The ccp driver
> then reads the file into memory for the PSP to use and is responsible
> for writing the file whenever the PSP modifies the memory region.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
> Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
> Cc: Marc Orr <marcorr@...gle.com>
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Cc: John Allen <john.allen@....com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> (
> Cc: linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>
> David Rientjes (1):
>   crypto: ccp - Add SEV_INIT_EX support
>
> Peter Gonda (3):
>   crypto: ccp - Fix SEV_INIT error logging on init
>   crypto: ccp - Move SEV_INIT retry for corrupted data
>   crypto: ccp - Refactor out sev_fw_alloc()
>
>  drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 235 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  include/linux/psp-sev.h      |  21 ++++
>  2 files changed, 222 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.33.1.1089.g2158813163f-goog
>

I've just replied with my Reviewed-by tag to all of the patches
because I had reviewed the v1 internally, before Peter posted
externally. Thank you, Tom, for the excellent reviews! I'm looking
forward to seeing the v2 with all of this feedback incorporated.