On 3/12/21 9:32 PM, Yao, Jiewen wrote:

Hi
We discuss the patch internally. We do see PROs and CONs with this approach.
The advantage is that it is very simple. In-VM migration can save lots of 
effort on security context restore.
On the other hand, we feel not so comfortable to reserve a dedicate CPU to 
achieve that. Similar to the feedback in the community.

Using Hot-Plug is not a solution for Intel TDX as well. It is unsupported now.

I like the idea to diverge the migration boot mode v.s. normal boot mode in SEC 
phase.
We must be very carefully handle this migration boot mode, to avoid any 
touching on system memory.
Intel TDX Virtual Firmware skips the PEI phase directly. If we choose this 
approach, SEC-based migration is our preference.

Besides this patch, we would like to understand a full picture.
1) How the key is passed from source VM to destination?
I saw you mentions: "Key sharing is out of scope for this part of the RFC."
"This will probably be implemented via inject-launch-secret in the future"

Does that mean two PSP will sync with each other and negotiate the key, after 
the Migration Agent (MA) checks the policy?

The source and destination migration handlers will need to share a key. If we only relied on the PSP for migration, we could use the existing secure channel between the PSP and the guest owner to transfer the pages. Unfortunately the throughput of this approach is far too low. Thus, we have some migration handler running on a guest vCPU with a transport key shared between the source and the target.

The main mechanism for getting a key to the migration handler is inject-launch-secret. Here the guest owner can provide a secret to the PSP via a secure channel and the PSP will inject it at some guest physical address. You use inject-launch-secret after the launch measurement of the guest has been generated to inject the secret conditionally. One approach would be to inject the transport key directly in the source and the target. This is pretty simple, but might have a few drawbacks. The injection has to happen at boot, meaning that the source machine would have to be provisioned with a transport key before a migration happens and that all migrations from that machine would have to use the same transport key. One way around this would be to inject asymmetric keys and use them to derive the transport key.

Another approach entirely is to use the PSP to migrate just a few pages, which might include a secret set by the source MH that the target MH could use to decrypt incoming pages. Using the PSP to migrate pages requires some extra kernel support.

For the RFC, we just assume that there is some shared key. We have talked some about the various options internally.

2) How the attestation is supported?
I read the whitepaper 
https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/SEV-SNP-strengthening-vm-isolation-with-integrity-protection-and-more.pdf.
It seems SEV and SEV-ES only support attestation during launch, I don't believe 
this migration feature will impact the attestation report. Am I right?
SEV-SNP supports more flexible attestation, does it include any information 
about the new migrated content?

Brijesh already addressed most of this. In our approach the MH is baked into the firmware, which can be attested prior to injecting the key. In other words there aren't any additional steps to attest the MH and it does not change the functionality of any existing attestation mechanisms.

-Tobin


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Cc: Dov Murik <dovmu...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum
<to...@ibm.com>; James Bottomley <j...@linux.ibm.com>; Hubertus Franke
<fran...@us.ibm.com>; Brijesh Singh <brijesh.si...@amd.com>; Ashish Kalra
<ashish.ka...@amd.com>; Jon Grimm <jon.gr...@amd.com>; Tom Lendacky
<thomas.lenda...@amd.com>; Yao, Jiewen <jiewen....@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/14] Firmware Support for Fast Live
Migration for AMD SEV

Hi Tobin
Thanks for your patch.
You may that Intel is working on TDX for the same live migration feature.

Please give me some time (about 1 work week) to digest and evaluate the patch
and impact.
Then I will provide feedback.

Thank you
Yao Jiewen

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Feldman-Fitzthum
Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 4:48 AM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: Dov Murik <dovmu...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum
<to...@ibm.com>; Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum <to...@linux.ibm.com>; James
Bottomley <j...@linux.ibm.com>; Hubertus Franke <fran...@us.ibm.com>;
Brijesh Singh <brijesh.si...@amd.com>; Ashish Kalra
<ashish.ka...@amd.com>;
Jon Grimm <jon.gr...@amd.com>; Tom Lendacky
<thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
Subject: [edk2-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/14] Firmware Support for Fast Live
Migration for AMD SEV

This is a demonstration of fast migration for encrypted virtual machines
using a Migration Handler that lives in OVMF. This demo uses AMD SEV,
but the ideas may generalize to other confidential computing platforms.
With AMD SEV, guest memory is encrypted and the hypervisor cannot access
or move it. This makes migration tricky. In this demo, we show how the
HV can ask a Migration Handler (MH) in the firmware for an encrypted
page. The MH encrypts the page with a transport key prior to releasing
it to the HV. The target machine also runs an MH that decrypts the page
once it is passed in by the target HV. These patches are not ready for
production, but the are a full end-to-end solution that facilitates a
fast live migration between two SEV VMs.

Corresponding patches for QEMU have been posted my colleague Dov Murik
on qemu-devel. Our approach needs little kernel support, requiring only
one hypercall that the guest can use to mark a page as encrypted or
shared. This series includes updated patches from Ashish Kalra and
Brijesh Singh that allow OVMF to use this hypercall.

The MH runs continuously in the guest, waiting for communication from
the HV. The HV starts an additional vCPU for the MH but does not expose
it to the guest OS via ACPI. We use the MpService to start the MH. The
MpService is only available at runtime and processes that are started by
it are usually cleaned up on ExitBootServices. Since we need the MH to
run continuously, we had to make some modifications. Ideally a feature
could be added to the MpService to allow for the starting of
long-running processes. Besides migration, this could support other
background processes that need to operate within the encryption
boundary. For now, we have included a handful of patches that modify the
MpService to allow the MH to keep running after ExitBootServices. These
are temporary.

Ashish Kalra (2):
   OvmfPkg/PlatformPei: Mark SEC GHCB page in the page encrpytion bitmap.
   OvmfPkg/PlatformDxe: Add support for SEV live migration.

Brijesh Singh (1):
   OvmfPkg/BaseMemEncryptLib: Support to issue unencrypted hypercall

Dov Murik (1):
   OvmfPkg/AmdSev: Build page table for migration handler

Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum (10):
   OvmfPkg/AmdSev: Base for Confidential Migration Handler
   OvmfPkg/PlatfomPei: Set Confidential Migration PCD
   OvmfPkg/AmdSev: Setup Migration Handler Mailbox
   OvmfPkg/AmdSev: MH support for mailbox protocol
   UefiCpuPkg/MpInitLib: temp removal of MpLib cleanup
   UefiCpuPkg/MpInitLib: Allocate MP buffer as runtime memory
   UefiCpuPkg/CpuExceptionHandlerLib: Exception handling as runtime
     memory
   OvmfPkg/AmdSev: Don't overwrite mailbox or pagetables
   OvmfPkg/AmdSev: Don't overwrite MH stack
   OvmfPkg/AmdSev: MH page encryption POC

  OvmfPkg/OvmfPkg.dec                           |  11 +
  OvmfPkg/AmdSev/AmdSevX64.dsc                  |   2 +
  OvmfPkg/AmdSev/AmdSevX64.fdf                  |  13 +-
  .../ConfidentialMigrationDxe.inf              |  45 +++
  .../ConfidentialMigrationPei.inf              |  35 ++
  .../DxeMemEncryptSevLib.inf                   |   1 +
  .../PeiMemEncryptSevLib.inf                   |   1 +
  OvmfPkg/PlatformDxe/Platform.inf              |   2 +
  OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/PlatformPei.inf           |   2 +
  UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib/DxeMpInitLib.inf |   2 +
  UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib/PeiMpInitLib.inf |   2 +
  OvmfPkg/AmdSev/ConfidentialMigration/MpLib.h  | 235 +++++++++++++
  .../ConfidentialMigration/VirtualMemory.h     | 177 ++++++++++
  OvmfPkg/Include/Guid/MemEncryptLib.h          |  16 +
  OvmfPkg/PlatformDxe/PlatformConfig.h          |   5 +
  .../ConfidentialMigrationDxe.c                | 325 ++++++++++++++++++
  .../ConfidentialMigrationPei.c                |  25 ++
  .../X64/PeiDxeVirtualMemory.c                 |  18 +
  OvmfPkg/PlatformDxe/AmdSev.c                  |  99 ++++++
  OvmfPkg/PlatformDxe/Platform.c                |   6 +
  OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/AmdSev.c                  |  10 +
  OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/Platform.c                |  10 +
  .../CpuExceptionHandlerLib/DxeException.c     |   8 +-
  UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib/DxeMpLib.c       |  21 +-
  UefiCpuPkg/Library/MpInitLib/MpLib.c          |   7 +-
  25 files changed, 1061 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644
OvmfPkg/AmdSev/ConfidentialMigration/ConfidentialMigrationDxe.inf
  create mode 100644
OvmfPkg/AmdSev/ConfidentialMigration/ConfidentialMigrationPei.inf
  create mode 100644 OvmfPkg/AmdSev/ConfidentialMigration/MpLib.h
  create mode 100644
OvmfPkg/AmdSev/ConfidentialMigration/VirtualMemory.h
  create mode 100644 OvmfPkg/Include/Guid/MemEncryptLib.h
  create mode 100644
OvmfPkg/AmdSev/ConfidentialMigration/ConfidentialMigrationDxe.c
  create mode 100644
OvmfPkg/AmdSev/ConfidentialMigration/ConfidentialMigrationPei.c
  create mode 100644 OvmfPkg/PlatformDxe/AmdSev.c

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