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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 23/34] x86, realmode: Decrypt trampoline area if memory encryption is active
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 18:39:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170614163903.fvlvscewnuk2u75x@pd.tnic> (raw)

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 06:24:16PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 02:17:09PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > When Secure Memory Encryption is enabled, the trampoline area must not
> > be encrypted. A CPU running in real mode will not be able to decrypt
> > memory that has been encrypted because it will not be able to use addresses
> > with the memory encryption mask.
> > 
> > A recent change that added a new system_state value exposed a warning
> > issued by early_ioreamp() when the system_state was not SYSTEM_BOOTING.
> > At the stage where the trampoline area is decrypted, the system_state is
> > now SYSTEM_SCHEDULING. The check was changed to issue a warning if the
> > system_state is greater than or equal to SYSTEM_RUNNING.
> 
> This piece along with the hunk touching system_state absolutely needs to
> be a separate patch as it is unrelated.

Btw, pls send this now and separate from the patchset as it is a bugfix
that should go into sched/core.

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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             reply	other threads:[~2017-06-14 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-14 16:39 Borislav Petkov [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-06-07 19:13 [PATCH v6 00/34] x86: Secure Memory Encryption (AMD) Tom Lendacky
2017-06-07 19:17 ` [PATCH v6 23/34] x86, realmode: Decrypt trampoline area if memory encryption is active Tom Lendacky
2017-06-14 16:24   ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-14 16:38     ` Tom Lendacky

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