[PATCH v2 1/3] powerpc/pseries: define driver for Platform KeyStore

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 09:23:02AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org> writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 07:30:46AM -0400, Nayna Jain wrote:
> >> PowerVM provides an isolated Platform Keystore(PKS) storage allocation
> >> for each LPAR with individually managed access controls to store
> >> sensitive information securely. It provides a new set of hypervisor
> >> calls for Linux kernel to access PKS storage.
> >> 
> >> Define POWER LPAR Platform KeyStore(PLPKS) driver using H_CALL interface
> >> to access PKS storage.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain <nayna at linux.ibm.com>
> >
> > This commit is now in mainline as commit 2454a7af0f2a ("powerpc/pseries:
> > define driver for Platform KeyStore") and I just bisected a crash while
> > boot testing Fedora's configuration [1] in QEMU to it. I initially
> > noticed this in ClangBuiltLinux's CI but this doesn't appear to be clang
> > specific since I can reproduce with GCC 12.2.1 from Fedora. I can
> > reproduce with just powernv_defconfig + CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES=y +
> > CONFIG_PSERIES_PLPKS=y. Our firmware and rootfs are available in our
> > boot-utils repository [2].
> 
> Thanks, classic bug I should have spotted.
> 
> I didn't catch it in my testing because PLPKS isn't enabled in
> our defconfigs.
> 
> Does your CI enable new options by default? Or are you booting
> allyesconfig?

Neither actually. We just test a bunch of in-tree and distribution
configurations. The distribution configurations are fetched straight
from their URLs on gitweb so we get any updates that they do, which is
how we noticed this (CONFIG_PSERIES_PLPKS was recently enabled in
Fedora):

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/c/a73f6858a2cbd16bbcc6d305d6c43aab6f59d0b1

> I'll send a fix.

Thanks for the quick response!

Cheers,
Nathan