[libvirt] [PATCH v2 3/4] qemu: Fix probing of AMD SEV support

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Mon Aug 20 05:20:21 UTC 2018


On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 04:30:11PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:35:17 +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > So the procedure to detect SEV support works like this:
> > 1) we detect that sev-guest is among the QOM types and set the cap flag
> > 2) we probe the monitor for SEV support
> >     - this is tricky, because QEMU with compiled SEV support will always
> >     report -object sev-guest and query-sev-capabilities command, that
> >     however doesn't mean SEV is supported
> > 3) depending on what the monitor returned, we either keep or clear the
> > capability flag for SEV
> >
> > Commit a349c6c21c6 added an explicit check for "GenericError" in the
> > monitor reply to prevent libvirtd to spam logs about missing
> > 'query-sev-capabilities' command. At the same time though, it returned
> > success in this case which means that we didn't clear the capability
> > flag afterwards and happily formatted SEV into qemuCaps. Therefore,
> > adjust all the relevant callers to handle -1 on errors, 0 on SEV being
> > unsupported and 1 on SEV being supported.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c                     | 15 +++++++++++----
> >  src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c                     | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
> >  tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_3.0.0.x86_64.xml |  1 -
> >  3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> ACK

Thanks, I pushed the series.

Erik





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