Re: SEV guest attestation

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Daniel P. Berrangé (berrange@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 03:40:36PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > * Sergio Lopez (slp@redhat.com) wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 02:44:51PM +0200, Dov Murik wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > SEV-ES has pre-launch measurement and secret injection, just like SEV
> > > > (except that the measurement includes the initial states of all vcpus,
> > > > that is, their VMSAs.  BTW that means that in order to calculate the
> > > > measurement the Attestation Server must know exactly how many vcpus are
> > > > in the VM).
> > > 
> > > You need the number of vCPUs and an idea of what their initial state
> > > is going to be, to be able to reproduce the same VMSA struct in the
> > > Attestation Server.
> > > 
> > > This may tie the Attestation Server with a particular version of both
> > > QEMU and KVM. I haven't checked if configuration changes in QEMU may
> > > also have an impact on it.
> > 
> > That's all OK; I'm expecting the attestation server to be given a whole
> > pile of information about the apparent environment to check.
> 
> Generally though we try not to let a VM to tied to a specific
> version of software. eg use machine types to ensure that the
> guest can run on any QEMU version, and get the same environment.
> This lets host admin upgrade the host software for bug/security
> fixes without negatively impacting users. It'd be nice not to
> loose that feature with SEV if possible.
> 
> IOW, if there are aspects of the vCPU initial state that might
> vary over time with different QEMU versions, should we be looking
> to tie that variance into the machine type version.

It's not tied to a particular version; but you may need to let the
attesting server know what version it's using so that it can check
everything adds up.

Dave

> For KVM changes, this might again come back to the idea fo a
> "host type version".
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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