[PATCH] x86/sev: Remove redundant ghcbs_initialized checks around __sev_{get,put}_ghcb()

From: Nikunj A Dadhania

Date: Mon May 18 2026 - 06:25:03 EST


After commit 3645eb7e3915 ("x86/fred: Fix early boot failures on
SEV-ES/SNP guests"), __sev_{get,put}_ghcb() handle the early-boot GHCB
fallback internally, making the ghcbs_initialized guards in
__set_pages_state() and svsm_perform_call_protocol() redundant.

Remove these redundant conditionals and call __sev_{get,put}_ghcb()
unconditionally.

Also initialize state->ghcb to NULL in the early-boot path of
__sev_get_ghcb() so that the ghcb_state is well-defined for all callers,
even though __sev_put_ghcb() currently returns early before reading it.

No functional change intended.

Suggested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c | 8 ++------
arch/x86/coco/sev/noinstr.c | 4 +++-
arch/x86/coco/sev/svsm.c | 10 ++--------
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c b/arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c
index 7ed3da998489d..ecd77d3217f3c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c
@@ -367,17 +367,13 @@ static unsigned long __set_pages_state(struct snp_psc_desc *data, unsigned long

local_irq_save(flags);

- if (sev_cfg.ghcbs_initialized)
- ghcb = __sev_get_ghcb(&state);
- else
- ghcb = boot_ghcb;
+ ghcb = __sev_get_ghcb(&state);

/* Invoke the hypervisor to perform the page state changes */
if (!ghcb || vmgexit_psc(ghcb, data))
sev_es_terminate(SEV_TERM_SET_LINUX, GHCB_TERM_PSC);

- if (sev_cfg.ghcbs_initialized)
- __sev_put_ghcb(&state);
+ __sev_put_ghcb(&state);

local_irq_restore(flags);

diff --git a/arch/x86/coco/sev/noinstr.c b/arch/x86/coco/sev/noinstr.c
index 5afd663a1c217..e1e03f12fc7bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/coco/sev/noinstr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/coco/sev/noinstr.c
@@ -121,8 +121,10 @@ noinstr struct ghcb *__sev_get_ghcb(struct ghcb_state *state)

WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());

- if (!sev_cfg.ghcbs_initialized)
+ if (!sev_cfg.ghcbs_initialized) {
+ state->ghcb = NULL;
return boot_ghcb;
+ }

data = this_cpu_read(runtime_data);
ghcb = &data->ghcb_page;
diff --git a/arch/x86/coco/sev/svsm.c b/arch/x86/coco/sev/svsm.c
index 2acf4a76afe7a..916d62cd17dc7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/coco/sev/svsm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/coco/sev/svsm.c
@@ -74,20 +74,14 @@ int svsm_perform_call_protocol(struct svsm_call *call)

flags = native_local_irq_save();

- if (sev_cfg.ghcbs_initialized)
- ghcb = __sev_get_ghcb(&state);
- else if (boot_ghcb)
- ghcb = boot_ghcb;
- else
- ghcb = NULL;
+ ghcb = __sev_get_ghcb(&state);

do {
ret = ghcb ? svsm_perform_ghcb_protocol(ghcb, call)
: __pi_svsm_perform_msr_protocol(call);
} while (ret == -EAGAIN);

- if (sev_cfg.ghcbs_initialized)
- __sev_put_ghcb(&state);
+ __sev_put_ghcb(&state);

native_local_irq_restore(flags);

--
2.48.1