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author | Peter Maydell | 2018-03-15 17:49:29 +0100 |
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committer | Peter Maydell | 2018-03-15 17:49:30 +0100 |
commit | 5bdd374347b873ab59b356a284494a8bc1664008 (patch) | |
tree | 66a79d773091939af76976b7f3d735f50e77d2d4 /docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt | |
parent | Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/stsquad/tags/pull-travis-speedup-130318... (diff) | |
parent | sev/i386: add sev_get_capabilities() (diff) | |
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream-sev' into staging
* Migrate MSR_SMI_COUNT (Liran)
* Update kernel headers (Gerd, myself)
* SEV support (Brijesh)
I have not tested non-x86 compilation, but I reordered the SEV patches
so that all non-x86-specific changes go first to catch any possible
issues (which weren't there anyway :)).
# gpg: Signature made Tue 13 Mar 2018 16:37:06 GMT
# gpg: using RSA key BFFBD25F78C7AE83
# gpg: Good signature from "Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>"
# gpg: aka "Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>"
# Primary key fingerprint: 46F5 9FBD 57D6 12E7 BFD4 E2F7 7E15 100C CD36 69B1
# Subkey fingerprint: F133 3857 4B66 2389 866C 7682 BFFB D25F 78C7 AE83
* remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream-sev: (22 commits)
sev/i386: add sev_get_capabilities()
sev/i386: qmp: add query-sev-capabilities command
sev/i386: qmp: add query-sev-launch-measure command
sev/i386: hmp: add 'info sev' command
cpu/i386: populate CPUID 0x8000_001F when SEV is active
sev/i386: add migration blocker
sev/i386: finalize the SEV guest launch flow
sev/i386: add support to LAUNCH_MEASURE command
target/i386: encrypt bios rom
sev/i386: add command to encrypt guest memory region
sev/i386: add command to create launch memory encryption context
sev/i386: register the guest memory range which may contain encrypted data
sev/i386: add command to initialize the memory encryption context
include: add psp-sev.h header file
sev/i386: qmp: add query-sev command
target/i386: add Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) object
kvm: introduce memory encryption APIs
kvm: add memory encryption context
docs: add AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV)
machine: add memory-encryption option
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Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt b/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f483795eaa --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) is a feature found on AMD processors. + +SEV is an extension to the AMD-V architecture which supports running encrypted +virtual machine (VMs) under the control of KVM. Encrypted VMs have their pages +(code and data) secured such that only the guest itself has access to the +unencrypted version. Each encrypted VM is associated with a unique encryption +key; if its data is accessed to a different entity using a different key the +encrypted guests data will be incorrectly decrypted, leading to unintelligible +data. + +The key management of this feature is handled by separate processor known as +AMD secure processor (AMD-SP) which is present in AMD SOCs. Firmware running +inside the AMD-SP provide commands to support common VM lifecycle. This +includes commands for launching, snapshotting, migrating and debugging the +encrypted guest. Those SEV command can be issued via KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP +ioctls. + +Launching +--------- +Boot images (such as bios) must be encrypted before guest can be booted. +MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl provides commands to encrypt the images :LAUNCH_START, +LAUNCH_UPDATE_DATA, LAUNCH_MEASURE and LAUNCH_FINISH. These four commands +together generate a fresh memory encryption key for the VM, encrypt the boot +images and provide a measurement than can be used as an attestation of the +successful launch. + +LAUNCH_START is called first to create a cryptographic launch context within +the firmware. To create this context, guest owner must provides guest policy, +its public Diffie-Hellman key (PDH) and session parameters. These inputs +should be treated as binary blob and must be passed as-is to the SEV firmware. + +The guest policy is passed as plaintext and hypervisor may able to read it +but should not modify it (any modification of the policy bits will result +in bad measurement). The guest policy is a 4-byte data structure containing +several flags that restricts what can be done on running SEV guest. +See KM Spec section 3 and 6.2 for more details. + +The guest policy can be provided via the 'policy' property (see below) + +# ${QEMU} \ + sev-guest,id=sev0,policy=0x1...\ + +Guest owners provided DH certificate and session parameters will be used to +establish a cryptographic session with the guest owner to negotiate keys used +for the attestation. + +The DH certificate and session blob can be provided via 'dh-cert-file' and +'session-file' property (see below + +# ${QEMU} \ + sev-guest,id=sev0,dh-cert-file=<file1>,session-file=<file2> + +LAUNCH_UPDATE_DATA encrypts the memory region using the cryptographic context +created via LAUNCH_START command. If required, this command can be called +multiple times to encrypt different memory regions. The command also calculates +the measurement of the memory contents as it encrypts. + +LAUNCH_MEASURE command can be used to retrieve the measurement of encrypted +memory. This measurement is a signature of the memory contents that can be +sent to the guest owner as an attestation that the memory was encrypted +correctly by the firmware. The guest owner may wait to provide the guest +confidential information until it can verify the attestation measurement. +Since the guest owner knows the initial contents of the guest at boot, the +attestation measurement can be verified by comparing it to what the guest owner +expects. + +LAUNCH_FINISH command finalizes the guest launch and destroy's the cryptographic +context. + +See SEV KM API Spec [1] 'Launching a guest' usage flow (Appendix A) for the +complete flow chart. + +To launch a SEV guest + +# ${QEMU} \ + -machine ...,memory-encryption=sev0 \ + -object sev-guest,id=sev0,cbitpos=47,reduced-phys-bits=1 + +Debugging +----------- +Since memory contents of SEV guest is encrypted hence hypervisor access to the +guest memory will get a cipher text. If guest policy allows debugging, then +hypervisor can use DEBUG_DECRYPT and DEBUG_ENCRYPT commands access the guest +memory region for debug purposes. This is not supported in QEMU yet. + +Snapshot/Restore +----------------- +TODO + +Live Migration +---------------- +TODO + +References +----------------- + +AMD Memory Encryption whitepaper: +http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2013/12/AMD_Memory_Encryption_Whitepaper_v7-Public.pdf + +Secure Encrypted Virutualization Key Management: +[1] http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/55766_SEV-KM API_Specification.pdf + +KVM Forum slides: +http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/7/74/02x08A-Thomas_Lendacky-AMDs_Virtualizatoin_Memory_Encryption_Technology.pdf + +AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual: + http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/24593.pdf + SME is section 7.10 + SEV is section 15.34 |