Re: [PATCH -v2] x86/Kconfig: Do not enable AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT automatically

[Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 12:03 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> Ok,
>
> here's v2, I've added "however" number 3 below which should summarize
> Christian's note about coherent and concurrent use of memory by the GPU
> and CPU, which obviously cannot work with bounce buffers.
>
> I'll send it to Linus next week if there are no more complaints.
>
> Thx.
>
> ---
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>
> This Kconfig option was added initially so that memory encryption is
> enabled by default on machines which support it.
>
> However, devices which have DMA masks that are less than the bit
> position of the encryption bit, aka C-bit, require the use of an IOMMU
> or the use of SWIOTLB.
>
> If the IOMMU is disabled or in passthrough mode, the kernel would switch
> to SWIOTLB bounce-buffering for those transfers.
>
> In order to avoid that,
>
>   2cc13bb4f59f ("iommu: Disable passthrough mode when SME is active")
>
> disables the default IOMMU passthrough mode so that devices for which the
> default 256K DMA is insufficient, can use the IOMMU instead.
>
> However 2, there are cases where the IOMMU is disabled in the BIOS, etc.
> (think the usual hardware folk "oops, I dropped the ball there" cases) or a
> driver doesn't properly use the DMA APIs or a device has a firmware or
> hardware bug, e.g.:
>
>   ea68573d408f ("drm/amdgpu: Fail to load on RAVEN if SME is active")
>
> However 3, in the above GPU use case, there are APIs like Vulkan and
> some OpenGL/OpenCL extensions which are under the assumption that
> user-allocated memory can be passed in to the kernel driver and both the
> GPU and CPU can do coherent and concurrent access to the same memory.
> That cannot work with SWIOTLB bounce buffers, of course.
>
> So, in order for those devices to function, drop the "default y" for the
> SME by default active option so that users who want to have SME enabled,
> will need to either enable it in their config or use "mem_encrypt=on" on
> the kernel command line.
>
>  [ tlendacky: Generalize commit message. ]
>
> Fixes: 7744ccdbc16f ("x86/mm: Add Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support")
> Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8bbacd0e-4580-3194-19d2-a0ecad7df09c@molgen.mpg.de

Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>

> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index bd70e8a39fbf..d9830e7e1060 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -1525,7 +1525,6 @@ config AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
>
>  config AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT
>         bool "Activate AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) by default"
> -       default y
>         depends on AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
>         help
>           Say yes to have system memory encrypted by default if running on
> --
> 2.29.2
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
> https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette