From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
To: Atish Patra <atish.patra@linux.dev>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Peter Gonda <pgonda@google.com>,
Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>,
Youngjae Lee <youngjaelee@meta.com>,
Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>,
Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>,
John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: clm@meta.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Atish Patra <atishp@meta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] crypto: ccp: Fix possible deadlock in SEV init failure path
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 09:43:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <379e45d2-1765-4043-8ad0-ce013da8683f@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260601-sev_snp_fixes-v2-3-611891b28a86@meta.com>
On 6/1/26 18:04, Atish Patra wrote:
> From: Atish Patra <atishp@meta.com>
>
> __sev_platform_init_handle_init_ex_path() called
s/called/calls/
> rmp_mark_pages_firmware() with locked=false but while the parent
s/but//
> function of init_ex_path already acquired the sev_cmd_mutex.
> In case of a rmpupdate failure for any page after the first, the cleanup
s/In case/In the case/
s/a rmpupdate/an RMPUPDATE/
> path would invoke reclaim pages which would result in a deadlock in
> sev_do_cmd.
>
> Pass locked=true to honor the lock status of the parent function.
>
> Fixes: 7364a6fbca45 ("crypto: ccp: Handle non-volatile INIT_EX data when SNP is enabled")
>
> Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atishp@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
> index d1e9e0ac63b6..3d4793e8e34b 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c
> @@ -1557,7 +1557,7 @@ static int __sev_platform_init_handle_init_ex_path(struct sev_device *sev)
> unsigned long npages;
>
> npages = 1UL << get_order(NV_LENGTH);
> - if (rmp_mark_pages_firmware(__pa(sev_init_ex_buffer), npages, false)) {
> + if (rmp_mark_pages_firmware(__pa(sev_init_ex_buffer), npages, true)) {
> dev_err(sev->dev, "SEV: INIT_EX NV memory page state change failed.\n");
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-02 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-01 23:04 [PATCH v2 0/4] KVM: Miscellaneous SEV/SNP related fixes Atish Patra
2026-06-01 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: SEV: Do not allow intra-host migration/mirroring of SNP VMs Atish Patra
2026-06-02 14:38 ` Tom Lendacky
2026-06-02 18:44 ` Atish Patra
2026-06-01 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: selftests: Verify SNP VMs are rejected from migration and mirroring Atish Patra
2026-06-01 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] crypto: ccp: Fix possible deadlock in SEV init failure path Atish Patra
2026-06-02 14:43 ` Tom Lendacky [this message]
2026-06-02 18:46 ` Atish Patra
2026-06-01 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] crypto: ccp: Fix memory leak in SEV INIT_EX path Atish Patra
2026-06-02 14:54 ` Tom Lendacky
2026-06-02 18:17 ` Atish Patra
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