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Re: [PATCH v3] SEV: QMP support for Inject-Launch-Secret
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
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Re: [PATCH v3] SEV: QMP support for Inject-Launch-Secret |
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Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:38:21 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.14.6 (2020-07-11) |
* James Bottomley (jejb@linux.ibm.com) wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-10-12 at 16:57 +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > * Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum (tobin@linux.ibm.com) wrote:
> > > On 2020-09-21 15:16, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > > > * Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum (tobin@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> > > > > AMD SEV allows a guest owner to inject a secret blob
> > > > > into the memory of a virtual machine. The secret is
> > > > > encrypted with the SEV Transport Encryption Key and
> > > > > integrity is guaranteed with the Transport Integrity
> > > > > Key. Although QEMU faciliates the injection of the
> > > > > launch secret, it cannot access the secret.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum <tobin@linux.vnet.ibm.com
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Tobin,
> > > > Did the ovmf stuff for agreeing the GUID for automating this
> > > > ever happen?
> > > >
> > > OVMF patches have not been upstreamed yet. I think we are planning
> > > to do that relatively soon.
> >
> > So as we're getting to the end of another qemu dev cycle; do we aim
> > to get this one in by itself, or to wait for the GUID?
>
> Since they're independent of each other, I'd say get this one in now if
> it's acceptable. The GUID will come as a discoverable way of setting
> the GPA, but this patch at least gives people a way to play with SEV
> secret injection. I'm also reworking the OVMF GUID patch to tack on to
> the reset vector GUID that just went upstream, so it will be a few more
> weeks yet before we have it all integrated with the -ES patch set.
OK, so I've just replied with a minor error leak that needs fixing, but
other than that it looks OK to me.
I've not quite figured out who would pull it, Paolo?
Dave
> James
>
>
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK