In SEV-enabled guest dma should be performed on shared pages. Since the SeaBIOS executes in non PAE mode and does not have access to C-bit to create a shared page hence disable the dma operation when reading from fw_cfg interface.
Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.si...@amd.com> --- hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c index 6a68e59..aca99e9 100644 --- a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c +++ b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #include "qemu/osdep.h" #include "hw/hw.h" #include "sysemu/sysemu.h" +#include "sysemu/kvm.h" #include "sysemu/dma.h" #include "hw/boards.h" #include "hw/isa/isa.h" @@ -1009,6 +1010,11 @@ static void fw_cfg_io_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp) FWCfgIoState *s = FW_CFG_IO(dev); SysBusDevice *sbd = SYS_BUS_DEVICE(dev); + /* disable dma on fw_cfg when SEV is enabled */ + if (kvm_sev_enabled()) { + qdev_prop_set_bit(dev, "dma_enabled", false); + } + /* when using port i/o, the 8-bit data register ALWAYS overlaps * with half of the 16-bit control register. Hence, the total size * of the i/o region used is FW_CFG_CTL_SIZE */