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Many of the integrity guarantees of SEV-SNP are enforced through the
Reverse Map Table (RMP). Each RMP entry contains the GPA at which a
particular page of DRAM should be mapped. The VMs can request the
hypervisor to add pages in the RMP table via the Page State Change
VMGEXIT defined in the GHCB specification.
Inside each RMP entry is a Validated flag; this flag is automatically
cleared to 0 by the CPU hardware when a new RMP entry is created for a
guest. Each VM page can be either validated or invalidated, as indicated
by the Validated flag in the RMP entry. Memory access to a private page
that is not validated generates a #VC. A VM must use the PVALIDATE
instruction to validate a private page before using it.
To maintain the security guarantee of SEV-SNP guests, when transitioning
pages from private to shared, the guest must invalidate the pages before
asking the hypervisor to change the page state to shared in the RMP table.
After the pages are mapped private in the page table, the guest must
issue a page state change VMGEXIT to mark the pages private in the RMP
table and validate them.
Upon boot, BIOS should have validated the entire system memory.
During the kernel decompression stage, early_setup_ghcb() uses
set_page_decrypted() to make the GHCB page shared (i.e. clear encryption
attribute). And while exiting from the decompression, it calls
set_page_encrypted() to make the page private.
Add snp_set_page_{private,shared}() helpers that are used by
set_page_{decrypted,encrypted}() to change the page state in the RMP
table.
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Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220307213356.2797205-16-brijesh.singh@amd.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.