linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH Part2 v5 00/45] Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Hypervisor Support

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Date:   Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:42:44 +0100
From:   Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
To:     "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@....com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sergio Lopez <slp@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Dov Murik <dovmurik@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum <tobin@....com>,
        Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, tony.luck@...el.com,
        marcorr@...gle.com, sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH Part2 v5 00/45] Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP)
 Hypervisor Support

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:30:59PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> Still; I wonder if it's best to kill the guest - maybe it's best for
> the host to kill the guest and leave behind diagnostics of what
> happened; for someone debugging the crash, it's going to be less useful
> to know that page X was wrongly accessed (which is what the guest would
> see), and more useful to know that it was the kernel's vhost-... driver
> that accessed it.

I is best to let the guest #VC on the page when this happens. If it
happened because of a guest bug all necessary debugging data is in the
guest and only the guest owner can obtain it.

Then the guest owner can do a kdump on this unexpected #VC and collect
the data to debug the issue. With just killing the guest from the host
side this data would be lost.

Regards,

	Joerg