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Tao Liu reported a boot hang on an Intel Atom machine due to an unmapped
EFI config table. The reason being that the CC blob which contains the
CPUID page for AMD SNP guests is parsed for before even checking
whether the machine runs on AMD hardware.
Usually that's not a problem on !AMD hw - it simply won't find the CC
blob's GUID and return. However, if any parts of the config table
pointers array is not mapped, the kernel will #PF very early in the
decompressor stage without any opportunity to recover.
Therefore, do a superficial CPUID check before poking for the CC blob.
This will fix the current issue on real hardware. It would also work as
a guest on a non-lying hypervisor.
For the lying hypervisor, the check is done again, *after* parsing the
CC blob as the real CPUID page will be present then.
Clear the #VC handler in case SEV-{ES,SNP} hasn't been detected, as
a precaution.
Fixes: c01fce9cef84 ("x86/compressed: Add SEV-SNP feature detection/setup")
Reported-by: Tao Liu <ltao@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Tested-by: Tao Liu <ltao@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230601072043.24439-1-ltao@redhat.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.