linux-kernel - [PATCH] KVM: SEV: Save the SEV policy if and only if LAUNCH

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Message-ID: <20250821213841.3462339-1-seanjc@google.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:38:41 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>, Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: SEV: Save the SEV policy if and only if LAUNCH_START succeeds

Wait until LAUNCH_START fully succeeds to set a VM's SEV/SNP policy so
that KVM doesn't keep a potentially stale policy.  In practice, the issue
is benign as the policy is only used to detect if the VMSA can be
decrypted, and the VMSA only needs to be decrypted if LAUNCH_UPDATE and
thus LAUNCH_START succeeded.

Fixes: 962e2b6152ef ("KVM: SVM: Decrypt SEV VMSA in dump_vmcb() if debugging is enabled")
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index f4381878a9e5..65b59939754c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -583,8 +583,6 @@ static int sev_launch_start(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
 	if (copy_from_user(&params, u64_to_user_ptr(argp->data), sizeof(params)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
-	sev->policy = params.policy;
-
 	memset(&start, 0, sizeof(start));
 
 	dh_blob = NULL;
@@ -632,6 +630,7 @@ static int sev_launch_start(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
 		goto e_free_session;
 	}
 
+	sev->policy = params.policy;
 	sev->handle = start.handle;
 	sev->fd = argp->sev_fd;
 
@@ -2201,8 +2200,6 @@ static int snp_launch_start(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
 		start.desired_tsc_khz = kvm->arch.default_tsc_khz;
 	}
 
-	sev->policy = params.policy;
-
 	sev->snp_context = snp_context_create(kvm, argp);
 	if (!sev->snp_context)
 		return -ENOTTY;
@@ -2218,6 +2215,7 @@ static int snp_launch_start(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
 		goto e_free_context;
 	}
 
+	sev->policy = params.policy;
 	sev->fd = argp->sev_fd;
 	rc = snp_bind_asid(kvm, &argp->error);
 	if (rc) {

base-commit: ecbcc2461839e848970468b44db32282e5059925
-- 
2.51.0.261.g7ce5a0a67e-goog