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From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To:     Peter Gonda <pgonda@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V4] virt: sev: Prevent IV reuse in SNP guest driver
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 02:47:31PM -0700, Peter Gonda wrote:
> > > +      * certificate data buffer retry the same guest request without the
> > > +      * extended data request.
> > > +      */
> > > +     if (exit_code == SVM_VMGEXIT_EXT_GUEST_REQUEST &&
> > > +         err == SNP_GUEST_REQ_INVALID_LEN) {
> > > +             const unsigned int certs_npages = snp_dev->input.data_npages;
> > > +
> > > +             exit_code = SVM_VMGEXIT_GUEST_REQUEST;
> > > +             rc = snp_issue_guest_request(exit_code, &snp_dev->input, &err);
> > > +
> > > +             err = SNP_GUEST_REQ_INVALID_LEN;
> >
> > Huh, why are we overwriting err here?
> 
> I have added a comment for the next revision.
> 
> We are overwriting err here so that userspace is alerted that they
> supplied a buffer too small.

Sure but you're not checking rc either. What if that reissue fails for
whatever other reason? -EIO for example...

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