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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/12] x86/virt/tdx: Allow SEAMCALL to handle #UD and
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 02:14:37AM +0000, Huang, Kai wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-08-06 at 14:41 +0300, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 11:25:13PM +1200, Kai Huang wrote:
> > > @@ -20,6 +21,9 @@
> > >  #define TDX_SW_ERROR			(TDX_ERROR | GENMASK_ULL(47, 40))
> > >  #define TDX_SEAMCALL_VMFAILINVALID	(TDX_SW_ERROR | _UL(0xFFFF0000))
> > >  
> > > +#define TDX_SEAMCALL_GP			(TDX_SW_ERROR | X86_TRAP_GP)
> > > +#define TDX_SEAMCALL_UD			(TDX_SW_ERROR | X86_TRAP_UD)
> > 
> > Is there any explantion how these error codes got chosen? Looks very
> > arbitrary and may collide with other error codes in the future.
> > 
> 
> Any error code has TDX_SW_ERROR is reserved to software use so the TDX module
> can never return any error code which conflicts with those software ones.
> 
> For why to choose these two, I believe XOR the TRAP number to TDX_SW_ERROR is
> the simplest way to achieve: 1) costing minimal assembly code; 2)
> opportunistically handling #GP too, allowing caller to distinguish the two
> errors.

My problem is that it is going to conflict with errno-based errors if we
going to take this path in the future. Like these errors are the same as
(TDX_SW_ERROR | EACCES) and (TDX_SW_ERROR | ENXIO) respectively.

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  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov