Hi Min Xu,

On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 01:56:05AM +0000, Min Xu via groups.io wrote:
> On Friday, April 7, 2023 4:29 AM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > On 4/5/23 20:42, Xu, Min M wrote:
> > > On April 3, 2023 7:21 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > >>>> I agree that the efi variable store is not secure without smm. But
> > >>>> after 58eb8517ad7b be introduced, the -D SECURE_BOOT_ENABLE
> > doesn't
> > >>>> work with SEV. System just hangs in "NvVarStore FV headers were
> > invalid."
> > >>> Hi, Joeyli
> > >>> ASSERT is triggered in DEBUG version. In RELEASE version ASSERT is
> > >>> skipped
> > >> and an error code is returned. So system will not hang.
> > >>> So another solution is simply remove the ASSERT. Then an error
> > >>> message is
> > >> dumped out and system continues.
> > >>>
> > >>> @Gerd Hoffmann @Tom Lendacky @joeyli What's your thought?
> > >>
> > >> Maybe we just need to call ReserveEmuVariableNvStore a bit later?
> > >>
> > > I think we can still call ReserveEmuVariableNvStore at PEI phase, but
> > > move the initialization of EmuVariableNvStore to
> > >
> > https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/EmuVariableFvbR
> > u
> > > ntimeDxe/Fvb.c#L780-L783 @Tom Lendacky  At this moment, is SEV guest
> > > available to read the content from VarStore?
> > 
> > It's quite possible. If you can work up a quick patch, I'll test it out.
> > 
> Yes, the patch is uploaded here 
> https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4379#c17
>

I have tested new patch. The issue is not produced, but after I applied debug
patch. Looks that the InitializeFvAndVariableStoreForSecureBoot() not be
called. I have put detail log on bugzilla.

Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee


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