Re: [PATCH v7 7/7] KVM: SEV: Add SEV-SNP CipherTextHiding support

[Kim Phillips]

On 8/12/25 2:38 PM, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
> On 8/12/2025 2:11 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:
> > On 8/12/25 1:52 PM, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
> > > On 8/12/2025 1:40 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:
> > > > > > It's not as immediately obvious that it needs to (0 < x < minimum SEV ASID 100).
> > > > > > OTOH, if the user inputs "ciphertext_hiding_asids=0x1", they now see:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >         kvm_amd: invalid ciphertext_hiding_asids "0x1" or !(0 < 99 < minimum SEV ASID 100)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > which - unlike the original v7 code - shows the user that the '0x1' was not interpreted as a number at all: thus the 99 in the latter condition.
> > > > > This is incorrect, as 0 < 99 < minimum SEV ASID 100 is a valid condition!
> > > > Precisely, meaning it's the '0x' in '0x1' that's the "invalid" part.
> > > > > And how can user input of 0x1, result in max_snp_asid == 99 ?
> > > > It doesn't, again, the 0x is the invalid part.
> > > >
> > > > > This is the issue with combining the checks and emitting a combined error message:
> > > > >
> > > > > Here, kstroint(0x1) fails with -EINVAL and so, max_snp_asid remains set to 99 and then the combined error conveys a wrong information :
> > > > > !(0 < 99 < minimum SEV ASID 100)
> > > > It's not, it says it's *OR* that condition.
> > > To me this is wrong as
> > > !(0 < 99 < minimum SEV ASID 100) is simply not a correct statement!
> > The diff I provided emits exactly this:
> >
> > kvm_amd: invalid ciphertext_hiding_asids "0x1" or !(0 < 99 < minimum SEV ASID 100)
> >
> >
> > which means *EITHER*:
> >
> > invalid ciphertext_hiding_asids "0x1"
> >
> > *OR*
> >
> > !(0 < 99 < minimum SEV ASID 100)
> >
> > but since the latter is 'true', the user is pointed to the former
> > "0x1" as being the interpretation problem.
> >
> > Would adding the word "Either" help?:
> >
> > kvm_amd: Either invalid ciphertext_hiding_asids "0x1", or !(0 < 99 < minimum SEV ASID 100)
> >
> > ?
> No, i simply won't put an invalid expression out there:
>
> !(0 < 99 < minimum SEV ASID 100)

When not quoted out of context, it's not an invalid expression (in the 
99 case) because it's preceded with the word "or:"

..., or !(0 < 99 < minimum SEV ASID 100)

> > If not, feel free to separate them: the code is still much cleaner.
> Separating the checks will make the code not very different from the original function, so i am going to keep the original code.

Take a look at the example diff below, then.  It's still less, simpler 
code because it eliminates:

1. the unnecessary ciphertext_hiding_asid_nr variable

2. the redundant isdigit(ciphertext_hiding_asids[0])) check
and 3. the 'invalid_parameter:' label referenced by only one goto 
statement. Thanks, Kim arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 44 
++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 20 
insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c 
b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c index 7ac0f0f25e68..d0a13f1b0572 100644 --- 
a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c @@ -2970,8 +2970,6 
@@ static bool is_sev_snp_initialized(void) static bool 
check_and_enable_sev_snp_ciphertext_hiding(void) { - unsigned int 
ciphertext_hiding_asid_nr = 0; - if (!ciphertext_hiding_asids[0]) return 
false; @@ -2980,32 +2978,28 @@ static bool 
check_and_enable_sev_snp_ciphertext_hiding(void) return false; } - if 
(isdigit(ciphertext_hiding_asids[0])) { - if 
(kstrtoint(ciphertext_hiding_asids, 10, &ciphertext_hiding_asid_nr)) - 
goto invalid_parameter; - - /* Do sanity check on user-defined 
ciphertext_hiding_asids */ - if (ciphertext_hiding_asid_nr >= 
min_sev_asid) { - pr_warn("Module parameter ciphertext_hiding_asids (%u) 
exceeds or equals minimum SEV ASID (%u)\n", - ciphertext_hiding_asid_nr, 
min_sev_asid); - return false; - } - } else if 
(!strcmp(ciphertext_hiding_asids, "max")) { - ciphertext_hiding_asid_nr 
= min_sev_asid - 1; + if (!strcmp(ciphertext_hiding_asids, "max")) { + 
max_snp_asid = min_sev_asid - 1; + min_sev_es_asid = max_snp_asid + 1; + 
return true; } - if (ciphertext_hiding_asid_nr) { - max_snp_asid = 
ciphertext_hiding_asid_nr; - min_sev_es_asid = max_snp_asid + 1; - 
pr_info("SEV-SNP ciphertext hiding enabled\n"); + if 
(kstrtoint(ciphertext_hiding_asids, 10, &max_snp_asid)) { + 
pr_warn("ciphertext_hiding_asids \"%s\" is not an integer\n", 
ciphertext_hiding_asids); + return false; + } - return true; + /* Do 
sanity check on user-defined ciphertext_hiding_asids */ + if 
(max_snp_asid < 1 || max_snp_asid >= min_sev_asid) { + pr_warn("!(0 < 
ciphertext_hiding_asids %u < minimum SEV ASID %u)\n", + max_snp_asid, 
min_sev_asid); + max_snp_asid = min_sev_asid - 1; + return false; } 
-invalid_parameter: - pr_warn("Module parameter ciphertext_hiding_asids 
(%s) invalid\n", - ciphertext_hiding_asids); - return false; + 
min_sev_es_asid = max_snp_asid + 1; + + return true; } void __init 
sev_hardware_setup(void) @@ -3122,8 +3116,10 @@ void __init 
sev_hardware_setup(void) * ASID range into separate SEV-ES and SEV-SNP 
ASID ranges with * the SEV-SNP ASID starting at 1. */ - if 
(check_and_enable_sev_snp_ciphertext_hiding()) + if 
(check_and_enable_sev_snp_ciphertext_hiding()) { + pr_info("SEV-SNP 
ciphertext hiding enabled\n"); init_args.max_snp_asid = max_snp_asid; + 
} if (sev_platform_init(&init_args)) sev_supported = sev_es_supported = 
sev_snp_supported = false; else if (sev_snp_supported)