Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/sev/vc: fix efi runtime instruction emulation

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue May 27 2025 - 12:22:34 EST


On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> In case efi_mm is active go use the userspace instruction decoder which
> supports fetching instructions from active_mm. This is needed to make
> instruction emulation work for EFI runtime code, so it can use cpuid
> and rdmsr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Can you pls explain what the use cases for this and your next patch are?

We'd like to add them to our test pile.

Thx.

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