linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/9] KVM: SVM: Explicitly require DECODEASSISTS to enable SEV support

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Message-Id: <20220120010719.711476-5-seanjc@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jan 2022 01:07:14 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/9] KVM: SVM: Explicitly require DECODEASSISTS to enable SEV support

Add a sanity check on DECODEASSIST being support if SEV is supported, as
KVM cannot read guest private memory and thus relies on the CPU to
provide the instruction byte stream on #NPF for emulation.  The intent of
the check is to document the dependency, it should never fail in practice
as producing hardware that supports SEV but not DECODEASSISTS would be
non-sensical.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index 6a22798eaaee..17b53457d866 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -2100,8 +2100,13 @@ void __init sev_hardware_setup(void)
 	if (!sev_enabled || !npt_enabled)
 		goto out;
 
-	/* Does the CPU support SEV? */
-	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SEV))
+	/*
+	 * SEV must obviously be supported in hardware.  Sanity check that the
+	 * CPU supports decode assists, which is mandatory for SEV guests to
+	 * support instruction emulation.
+	 */
+	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SEV) ||
+	    WARN_ON_ONCE(!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_DECODEASSISTS)))
 		goto out;
 
 	/* Retrieve SEV CPUID information */
-- 
2.34.1.703.g22d0c6ccf7-goog