Measurements fail with direct kernel boot for AMD SEV confidential virtualization with 7.1 machine type Description of problem: When booting the QEMU with the 'kernel-hashes:true' property set for 'sev-guest' confidential virtualization, the contents of the `-kernel` file are measured by the firmware. A remote tenant can then validate the measurement against its expected contents to see if the boot was trustworthy. With the pc-q35-7.1 machine type the measurement always fails to validate against expected state. Making the following code change ``` diff --git a/hw/i386/pc.c b/hw/i386/pc.c index 7280c02ce3..3a4bf5cba3 100644 --- a/hw/i386/pc.c +++ b/hw/i386/pc.c @@ -1899,6 +1899,8 @@ static void pc_machine_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data) pcmc->rsdp_in_ram = true; pcmc->smbios_defaults = true; pcmc->smbios_uuid_encoded = true; + pcmc->legacy_no_rng_seed = true; + pcmc->gigabyte_align = true; pcmc->has_reserved_memory = true; pcmc->kvmclock_enabled = true; ``` results in successfully validating the measurement. THis is not surprising, the RNG seed patch introduced in ``` commit 67f7e426e53833a5db75b0d813e8d537b8a75bd2 Author: Jason A. Donenfeld Date: Thu Jul 21 14:56:36 2022 +0200 hw/i386: pass RNG seed via setup_data entry ``` intentionally modifies the contents of the kernel image before passing it to the firmware, to inject a random seed. This will ensure the boot measuremnts are different every time. This RNG seed functionality must NOT be used when AMD SEV is active. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create an AMD SEV guest with kernel-hashes=true and pc-q35-7.1 machine type 2. Attempt to validate the boot measurement Additional information: