linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 30/38] x86/paravirt: Don't use a PV sched

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Message-ID: <20250227021855.3257188-31-seanjc@google.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:18:46 -0800
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, 
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org, 
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, 
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	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>, Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 30/38] x86/paravirt: Don't use a PV sched_clock in CoCo
 guests with trusted TSC

Silently ignore attempts to switch to a paravirt sched_clock when running
as a CoCo guest with trusted TSC.  In hand-wavy theory, a misbehaving
hypervisor could attack the guest by manipulating the PV clock to affect
guest scheduling in some weird and/or predictable way.  More importantly,
reading TSC on such platforms is faster than any PV clock, and sched_clock
is all about speed.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
index a3a1359cfc26..c538c608d9fb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -89,6 +89,15 @@ DEFINE_STATIC_CALL(pv_sched_clock, native_sched_clock);
 int __init __paravirt_set_sched_clock(u64 (*func)(void), bool stable,
 				      void (*save)(void), void (*restore)(void))
 {
+	/*
+	 * Don't replace TSC with a PV clock when running as a CoCo guest and
+	 * the TSC is secure/trusted; PV clocks are emulated by the hypervisor,
+	 * which isn't in the guest's TCB.
+	 */
+	if (cc_platform_has(CC_ATTR_GUEST_SNP_SECURE_TSC) ||
+	    boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TDX_GUEST))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	if (!stable)
 		clear_sched_clock_stable();
 
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