linux-kernel - Re: [Question PATCH kernel] x86/amd/sev/nmi+vc: Fix stack handling (why is this happening?)

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Message-ID: <Y9lGGLWovbh4v3Oy@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:47:20 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@....com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Subject: Re: [Question PATCH kernel] x86/amd/sev/nmi+vc: Fix stack handling
 (why is this happening?)

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 03:53:39PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > I don't think that is technically true.  A _well-behaved_ hypervisor will not
> > intercept DR0-DR6 accesses for SEV-ES guests, but AFAICT nothing in the SEV-ES
> > architecture enforces that behavior.
> 
> Not from the hardware architecture side, but the GHCB spec does not
> list NAE events for DR0-DR6 accesses, so a guest is not required to
> handle them in the VC handler.
> 
> Linux under SEV-ES will crash if the HV intercepts debug registers,
> except DR7.

Right, I'm just objecting to the wording of "DR0-DR6 are not intercepted".  E.g.
from a security perspective, the kernel shouldn't rely on DR0-DR6 to execute
cleanly.