From: ross.philipson@oracle.com
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 04/15] x86: Secure Launch Resource Table header file
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:10:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d250f64a-dd4b-44ca-8fb9-464bbd812c54@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08ac69b4-4d12-4454-aa16-40db7e54816f@citrix.com>
On 2/21/24 6:03 PM, 'Andrew Cooper' via trenchboot-devel wrote:
> On 15/02/2024 8:08 am, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 23:31, Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> +/*
>>> + * Primary SLR Table Header
>
> I know it's just a comment, but SLR ought to be written in longhand here.
Will do, thanks. Ross.
>
>>> + */
>>> +struct slr_table {
>>> + u32 magic;
>>> + u16 revision;
>>> + u16 architecture;
>>> + u32 size;
>>> + u32 max_size;
>>> + /* entries[] */
>>> +} __packed;
>> Packing this struct has no effect on the layout so better drop the
>> __packed here. If this table is part of a structure that can appear
>> misaligned in memory, better to pack the outer struct or deal with it
>> there in another way.
>
> As you note, __packed does two things not one.
>
> The consumer of the random integer that is expected to be a pointer to a
> struct lsr_table doesn't know whether it was invoked by a 16bit
> bootloader or a 32bit bootloader, and this really does make a difference
> for an ABI described only in C.
>
> Then again, we're holding off on setting the spec in stone until there's
> an agreement in principle, so we could retrofit a statement about the
> expected alignment of this structure in memory.
>
> The sane choices are either 8b alignment (there are uint64_t's in
> entires[], but I also see there are some misaligned uint64_t's too,
> which is dull), or using the good old x86 fallback or paragraph
> alignment just in case we really want to extend it with a uint128_t in
> future.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> ~Andrew
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-22 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-14 22:18 [PATCH v8 00/15] x86: Trenchboot secure dynamic launch Linux kernel support Ross Philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 01/15] x86/boot: Place kernel_info at a fixed offset Ross Philipson
2024-02-15 7:56 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-02-15 10:56 ` Daniel Kiper
2024-03-21 13:45 ` Daniel P. Smith
2024-03-22 14:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2024-03-23 1:33 ` Daniel P. Smith
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 02/15] Documentation/x86: Secure Launch kernel documentation Ross Philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 03/15] x86: Secure Launch Kconfig Ross Philipson
2024-02-15 7:59 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-02-15 22:20 ` ross.philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 04/15] x86: Secure Launch Resource Table header file Ross Philipson
2024-02-15 8:08 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-02-22 2:03 ` Andrew Cooper
2024-02-22 2:10 ` ross.philipson [this message]
2024-02-22 17:49 ` ross.philipson
2024-03-29 22:38 ` Kim Phillips
2024-03-29 22:38 ` Kim Phillips
2024-03-29 22:38 ` Kim Phillips
2024-04-01 18:25 ` ross.philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 05/15] x86: Secure Launch main " Ross Philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 06/15] x86: Add early SHA support for Secure Launch early measurements Ross Philipson
2024-02-15 8:17 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-02-22 3:04 ` Andrew Cooper
2024-02-22 9:34 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-02-22 12:30 ` Andrew Cooper
2024-02-23 9:27 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-02-23 16:42 ` Andrew Cooper
2024-02-23 17:54 ` Eric Biggers
2024-02-23 18:20 ` Andrew Cooper
2024-02-23 18:30 ` Eric Biggers
2024-04-03 16:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2024-04-03 23:56 ` Eric Biggers
2024-04-04 4:55 ` ross.philipson
2024-04-04 14:55 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 07/15] x86: Secure Launch kernel early boot stub Ross Philipson
2024-02-15 8:29 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-02-15 22:26 ` ross.philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 08/15] x86: Secure Launch kernel late " Ross Philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 09/15] x86: Secure Launch SMP bringup support Ross Philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 10/15] kexec: Secure Launch kexec SEXIT support Ross Philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 11/15] reboot: Secure Launch SEXIT support on reboot paths Ross Philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 12/15] tpm: Add ability to set the preferred locality the TPM chip uses Ross Philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 13/15] tpm: Add sysfs interface to allow setting and querying the preferred locality Ross Philipson
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 14/15] x86: Secure Launch late initcall platform module Ross Philipson
2024-02-15 8:40 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-02-22 13:57 ` Daniel P. Smith
2024-02-23 9:36 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-03-21 14:11 ` Daniel P. Smith
2024-02-16 1:53 ` kernel test robot
2024-02-17 7:53 ` kernel test robot
2024-02-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v8 15/15] x86: EFI stub DRTM launch support for Secure Launch Ross Philipson
2024-02-15 9:01 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-02-21 20:17 ` ross.philipson
2024-02-21 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2024-02-21 23:24 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-02-17 7:31 ` kernel test robot
2024-02-17 20:06 ` kernel test robot
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