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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:32:52 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
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"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
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Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@...el.com>,
Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@...el.com>,
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"Kalra, Ashish" <ashish.kalra@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Randomness on confidential computing platforms
On January 29, 2024 2:18:50 PM PST, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> wrote:
>On 1/29/24 13:33, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>> Let's assume buggy userspace exists. Is that userspace *uniquely*
>>> exposed to a naughty VMM or is that VMM just added to the list of things
>>> that can attack buggy userspace?
>> This is good question.
>>
>> VMM has control over when a VCPU gets scheduled and on what CPU which
>> gives it tighter control over the target workload. It can make a
>> difference if there's small window for an attack before RDRAND is
>> functional again.
>
>This is all a bit too theoretical for my taste. I'm fine with doing
>some generic mitigation (WARN_ON_ONCE(hardware_is_exhausted)), but we're
>talking about a theoretical attack with theoretical buggy software when
>in a theoretically unreachable hardware state.
>
>Until it's clearly much more practical, we have much bigger problems to
>worry about.
Again, do we even have a problem with the "hold the boot until we have entropy"option?
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