Make sure that the kernel command line used for the Secure Execution
boot image is always null-terminated. Before this change, users had to
ensure that the provided kernel cmdline was null-terminated, which was
error-prone. But since the default s390x Linux kernel command line is
set to `root=/dev/ram0 ro` the remaining reserved memory for the kernel
command line is zeroed out. Therefore, the problem only shows up if the
used kernel command line is shorter than the default kernel command
line.
Fixes: 65b9fc442c ("genprotimg: introduce new tool for the creation of PV images")
Reviewed-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>
Protected VMs (PVM) are KVM VMs, where KVM can't access the VM's state
like guest memory and guest registers anymore. Instead the PVMs are
mostly managed by a new entity called Ultravisor (UV), which provides
an API, so KVM and the PV can request management actions.
PVMs are encrypted at rest and protected from hypervisor access while
running. They switch from a normal operation into protected mode, so
we can still use the standard boot process to load an encrypted image
and then move it into protected mode.
This commit adds the tool 'genprotimg'. It takes a kernel, key files,
optionally an initrd, optionally a file with the kernel command line,
and it generates a single, loadable image file. The image consists of
a concatenation of a plain text boot loader, the encrypted components
for kernel, initrd, and cmdline, and the integrity-protected PV
header, containing metadata necessary for running the guest in PV
mode.
It's possible to use this image file as a kernel for zipl or for a
direct kernel boot using QEMU.
Reviewed-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steuer <patrick.steuer@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Marc Hartmayer