Just like with firmware builds targeting the confidential use case, use of the uefi-vars device obviates the need to have SMM emulation enabled while still guaranteeing that protected EFI variables work as intended. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> --- src/qemu/qemu_firmware.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_firmware.c b/src/qemu/qemu_firmware.c index 68563b8083..962d6cdee7 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_firmware.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_firmware.c @@ -1689,6 +1689,7 @@ qemuFirmwareSanityCheck(const qemuFirmware *fw, bool requiresSMM = false; bool supportsSecureBoot = false; bool hasEnrolledKeys = false; + bool usesUefiVarsDevice = false; bool isConfidential = false; for (i = 0; i < fw->nfeatures; i++) { @@ -1702,6 +1703,9 @@ qemuFirmwareSanityCheck(const qemuFirmware *fw, case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_ENROLLED_KEYS: hasEnrolledKeys = true; break; + case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_HOST_UEFI_VARS: + usesUefiVarsDevice = true; + break; case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_AMD_SEV: case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_AMD_SEV_ES: case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_AMD_SEV_SNP: @@ -1711,7 +1715,6 @@ qemuFirmwareSanityCheck(const qemuFirmware *fw, case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_NONE: case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_ACPI_S3: case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_ACPI_S4: - case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_HOST_UEFI_VARS: case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_DYNAMIC: case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_STATIC: case QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_LAST: @@ -1725,14 +1728,21 @@ qemuFirmwareSanityCheck(const qemuFirmware *fw, * support SMM. This is OK, because EFI binaries for confidential * VMs also don't support EFI variable storage in NVRAM, instead * the secureboot state is hardcoded to enabled. + * + * Similarly, use of the uefi-vars QEMU device guarantees that + * protected EFI variables work as expected without requiring SMM + * emulation. */ if (!isConfidential && + !usesUefiVarsDevice && supportsSecureBoot != requiresSMM) { VIR_WARN("Firmware description '%s' has invalid set of features: " - "%s = %d, %s = %d (isConfidential = %d)", + "%s = %d, %s = %d, %s = %d (isConfidential = %d)", filename, qemuFirmwareFeatureTypeToString(QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_REQUIRES_SMM), requiresSMM, + qemuFirmwareFeatureTypeToString(QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_HOST_UEFI_VARS), + usesUefiVarsDevice, qemuFirmwareFeatureTypeToString(QEMU_FIRMWARE_FEATURE_SECURE_BOOT), supportsSecureBoot, isConfidential); -- 2.52.0