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authorDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>2020-10-20 17:01:19 +1100
committerDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>2021-02-08 16:57:38 +1100
commitabc27d4241f99bfaebb0b843b9a967d557ac10e8 (patch)
treeda384090a8bcbcd5476b1f2bc58f11dc0033f0f9 /include
parentc9f5aaa6bce819c1863c2a56b187cb9eb521fc92 (diff)
confidential guest support: Introduce cgs "ready" flag
The platform specific details of mechanisms for implementing confidential guest support may require setup at various points during initialization. Thus, it's not really feasible to have a single cgs initialization hook, but instead each mechanism needs its own initialization calls in arch or machine specific code. However, to make it harder to have a bug where a mechanism isn't properly initialized under some circumstances, we want to have a common place, late in boot, where we verify that cgs has been initialized if it was requested. This patch introduces a ready flag to the ConfidentialGuestSupport base type to accomplish this, which we verify in qemu_machine_creation_done(). Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
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-rw-r--r--include/exec/confidential-guest-support.h24
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/exec/confidential-guest-support.h b/include/exec/confidential-guest-support.h
index 3db6380e63..ba2dd4b5df 100644
--- a/include/exec/confidential-guest-support.h
+++ b/include/exec/confidential-guest-support.h
@@ -27,6 +27,30 @@ OBJECT_DECLARE_SIMPLE_TYPE(ConfidentialGuestSupport, CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT)
struct ConfidentialGuestSupport {
Object parent;
+
+ /*
+ * ready: flag set by CGS initialization code once it's ready to
+ * start executing instructions in a potentially-secure
+ * guest
+ *
+ * The definition here is a bit fuzzy, because this is essentially
+ * part of a self-sanity-check, rather than a strict mechanism.
+ *
+ * It's not feasible to have a single point in the common machine
+ * init path to configure confidential guest support, because
+ * different mechanisms have different interdependencies requiring
+ * initialization in different places, often in arch or machine
+ * type specific code. It's also usually not possible to check
+ * for invalid configurations until that initialization code.
+ * That means it would be very easy to have a bug allowing CGS
+ * init to be bypassed entirely in certain configurations.
+ *
+ * Silently ignoring a requested security feature would be bad, so
+ * to avoid that we check late in init that this 'ready' flag is
+ * set if CGS was requested. If the CGS init hasn't happened, and
+ * so 'ready' is not set, we'll abort.
+ */
+ bool ready;
};
typedef struct ConfidentialGuestSupportClass {