Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Export PSP security attributes

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Apr 08 2022 - 04:32:25 EST


On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 04:12:09PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Select AMD SOCs include the ability to export capabilities that
> have been activated or detected by the platform security processor.
>
> This information is useful for both system designers as well as system
> administrators to ensure that the system has been properly locked down
> to their expectations.
>
> Software such as fwupd will also be modified to use this information
> as part of the calculations for a security level score that may be
> presented to a user.
>
> This series also adds the ability to detect that TSME and SME are both
> activated simultaneously to notify a user. Previously a user could turn
> on TSME and SME at the same time, but the kernel was unable to detect
> that TSME was enabled in the OS.
>
> This information is evaluated "too late" right now in the kernel to stop
> the kernel from enabling SME, but if that is desirable at a later time
> some of the early code can be modified to read the same information and
> make that decision.
>
> Mario Limonciello (4):
> crypto: ccp: cache capability into psp device
> crypto: ccp: Export PSP security bits to userspace
> crypto: ccp: Allow PSP driver to load without SEV/TEE support
> crypto: ccp: When TSME and SME both detected notify user
>
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ccp | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c | 49 +++++-------
> drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.h | 22 ++++++
> drivers/crypto/ccp/sp-pci.c | 62 +++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ccp

All applied. Thanks.
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