[RFC Part1 PATCH v3 04/17] x86/mm: Don't attempt to encrypt initrd under SEV

Brijesh Singh brijesh.singh at amd.com
Tue Jul 25 05:07:44 AEST 2017


From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky at amd.com>

When SEV is active the initrd/initramfs will already have already been
placed in memory encyrpted so do not try to encrypt it.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh at amd.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 0bfe0c1..01d56a1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -379,9 +379,11 @@ static void __init reserve_initrd(void)
 	 * If SME is active, this memory will be marked encrypted by the
 	 * kernel when it is accessed (including relocation). However, the
 	 * ramdisk image was loaded decrypted by the bootloader, so make
-	 * sure that it is encrypted before accessing it.
+	 * sure that it is encrypted before accessing it. For SEV the
+	 * ramdisk will already be encyrpted, so only do this for SME.
 	 */
-	sme_early_encrypt(ramdisk_image, ramdisk_end - ramdisk_image);
+	if (sme_active())
+		sme_early_encrypt(ramdisk_image, ramdisk_end - ramdisk_image);
 
 	initrd_start = 0;
 
-- 
2.9.4



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