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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/tdx.rst b/Documentation/x86/tdx.rst index b8fa4329e1a5..dc8d9fd2c3f7 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/tdx.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/tdx.rst @@ -210,6 +210,49 @@ converted to shared on boot. For coherent DMA allocation, the DMA buffer gets converted on the allocation. Check force_dma_unencrypted() for details. +Attestation +=========== + +Attestation is used to verify the TDX guest trustworthiness to other +entities before provisioning secrets to the guest. For example, a key +server may want to use attestation to verify that the guest is the +desired one before releasing the encryption keys to mount the encrypted +rootfs or a secondary drive. + +The TDX module records the state of the TDX guest in various stages of +the guest boot process using the build time measurement register (MRTD) +and runtime measurement registers (RTMR). Measurements related to the +guest initial configuration and firmware image are recorded in the MRTD +register. Measurements related to initial state, kernel image, firmware +image, command line options, initrd, ACPI tables, etc are recorded in +RTMR registers. For more details, as an example, please refer to TDX +Virtual Firmware design specification, section titled "TD Measurement". +At TDX guest runtime, the attestation process is used to attest to these +measurements. + +The attestation process consists of two steps: TDREPORT generation and +Quote generation. + +TDX guest uses TDCALL[TDG.MR.REPORT] to get the TDREPORT (TDREPORT_STRUCT) +from the TDX module. TDREPORT is a fixed-size data structure generated by +the TDX module which contains guest-specific information (such as build +and boot measurements), platform security version, and the MAC to protect +the integrity of the TDREPORT. A user-provided 64-Byte REPORTDATA is used +as input and included in the TDREPORT. Typically it can be some nonce +provided by attestation service so the TDREPORT can be verified uniquely. +More details about the TDREPORT can be found in Intel TDX Module +specification, section titled "TDG.MR.REPORT Leaf". + +After getting the TDREPORT, the second step of the attestation process +is to send it to the Quoting Enclave (QE) to generate the Quote. TDREPORT +by design can only be verified on the local platform as the MAC key is +bound to the platform. To support remote verification of the TDREPORT, +TDX leverages Intel SGX Quoting Enclave to verify the TDREPORT locally +and convert it to a remotely verifiable Quote. Method of sending TDREPORT +to QE is implementation specific. Attestation software can choose +whatever communication channel available (i.e. vsock or TCP/IP) to +send the TDREPORT to QE and receive the Quote. + References ========== |