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| author | Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> | 2026-09-23 09:37:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2026-09-26 00:39:55 -0400 |
| commit | 93de2a6a4b91b72607136dd656edf03fb399d27f (patch) | |
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KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM during intra-host migrationgrafted
Manually perform cache maintenance on the source VM during intra-host
migration to ensure no stale data is left in CPU caches after the VM is
destroyed. Because the source VM is "converted" to a non-SEV VM, KVM's
memory reclaim flows won't trigger cache maintenance, e.g. when all guest
memory is reclaimed in response to detaching from the mmu_notifier.
Note, relying on the destination VM to do cache maintenance isn't an option
as KVM doesn't require identical guest memory configurations, i.e. the
source VM may have access to memory that the destination VM does not.
Enforcing equivalent memory configurations is infeasible, as it would
require a *deep* comparison of memslots, e.g. to verify that not only are
the memslot identical, but what the memslots point at is also identical.
Fixes: b56639318bb2 ("KVM: SEV: Add support for SEV intra host migration")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Stefan Teodorescu <fane@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-ID: <20260923163721.1584779-3-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto-unauth-encryption.rst b/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto-unauth-encryption.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b4639b892 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/crypto/libcrypto-unauth-encryption.rst @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later + +Unauthenticated encryption +========================== + +These APIs provide support for unauthenticated encryption and decryption, +including bare stream ciphers and other length-preserving algorithms such as +block ciphers in XTS mode. The legitimate use cases for these algorithms are: + +- Support for legacy protocols that really should have chosen an authenticated + mode (or even another primitive entirely) but didn't. + +- Internal components of authenticated modes. For example, AES-CTR is used by + AES-GCM and AES-CCM internally. + +- Storage encryption that cannot accommodate ciphertext expansion. Usually + AES-XTS is used for this. + +- Stream ciphers for key derivation and random number generation. + +Besides the above, these shouldn't be used. + +AES-CBC and AES-CBC-CTS +----------------------- + +This API provides support for AES in the CBC and CBC-CTS modes of operation. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/aes-cbc.h + +AES-CTR and AES-XCTR +-------------------- + +This API provides support for AES in the CTR and XCTR modes of operation. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/aes-ctr.h + +AES-ECB +------- + +This API provides support for AES in the ECB mode of operation. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/aes-ecb.h + +AES-XTS +------- + +This API provides support for AES in the XTS mode of operation. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/crypto/aes-xts.h |
