Document the Intel SGX kernel architecture. The fine-grained micro architecture details can be looked up from Intel SDM Volume 3D. Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen --- Documentation/x86/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/x86/sgx.rst | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 198 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/sgx.rst diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst index 265d9e9a093b..807290bf357c 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst @@ -30,3 +30,4 @@ x86-specific Documentation usb-legacy-support i386/index x86_64/index + sgx diff --git a/Documentation/x86/sgx.rst b/Documentation/x86/sgx.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..249843666963 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/sgx.rst @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============ +Architecture +============ + +*Software Guard eXtensions (SGX)* is a set of instructions that enable ring-3 +applications to set aside private regions of code and data. These regions are +called enclaves. An enclave can be entered to a fixed set of entry points. Only +a CPU running inside the enclave can access its code and data. + +The support can be determined by + + ``grep sgx /proc/cpuinfo`` + +Enclave Page Cache +================== + +SGX utilizes an *Enclave Page Cache (EPC)* to store pages that are associated +with an enclave. It is contained in a BIOS reserved region of physical memory. +Unlike pages used for regular memory, pages can only be accessed outside the +enclave for different purposes with the instructions **ENCLS**, **ENCLV** and +**ENCLU**. + +Direct memory accesses to an enclave can be only done by a CPU executing inside +the enclave. An enclave can be entered with **ENCLU[EENTER]** to a fixed set of +entry points. However, a CPU executing inside the enclave can do outside memory +accesses. + +Page Types +---------- + +**SGX Enclave Control Structure (SECS)** + Enclave's address range, attributes and other global data are defined + by this structure. + +**Regular (REG)** + Regular EPC pages contain the code and data of an enclave. + +**Thread Control Structure (TCS)** + Thread Control Structure pages define the entry points to an enclave and + track the execution state of an enclave thread. + +**Version Array (VA)** + Version Array pages contain 512 slots, each of which can contain a version + number for a page evicted from the EPC. + +Enclave Page Cache Map +---------------------- + +The processor tracks EPC pages via the *Enclave Page Cache Map (EPCM)*. EPCM +contains an entry for each EPC page, which describes the owning enclave, access +rights and page type among the other things. + +The permissions from EPCM is consulted if and only if walking the kernel page +tables succeeds. The total permissions are thus a conjunction between page table +and EPCM permissions. + +For all intents and purposes the SGX architecture allows the processor to +invalidate all EPCM entries at will, i.e. requires that software be prepared to +handle an EPCM fault at any time. The contents of EPC are encrypted with an +ephemeral key, which is lost on power transitions. + +EPC management +============== + +EPC pages do not have ``struct page`` instances. They are IO memory from kernel +perspective. The consequence is that they are always mapped as shared memory. +Kernel defines ``/dev/sgx/enclave`` that can be mapped as ``MAP_SHARED`` to +define the address range for an enclave. + +EPC Over-subscription +===================== + +When the amount of free EPC pages goes below a low watermark the swapping thread +starts reclaiming pages. The pages that do not have the **A** bit set are +selected as victim pages. + +Launch Control +============== + +SGX provides a launch control mechanism. After all enclave pages have been +copied, kernel executes **ENCLS[EINIT]**, which initializes the enclave. Only +after this the CPU can execute inside the enclave. + +This leaf function takes an RSA-3072 signature of the enclave measurement and an +optional cryptographic token. Linux does not take advantage of launch tokens. +The instruction checks that the signature is signed with the key defined in +**IA32_SGXLEPUBKEYHASH?** MSRs and the measurement is correct. If so, the +enclave is allowed to be executed. + +MSRs can be configured by the BIOS to be either readable or writable. Linux +supports only writable configuration in order to give full control to the kernel +on launch control policy. Readable configuration requires the use of previously +mentioned launch tokens. + +The current kernel implementation supports only writable MSRs. The launch is +performed by setting the MSRs to the hash of the enclave signer's public key. +The alternative would be to have *a launch enclave* that would be signed with +the key set into MSRs, which would then generate launch tokens for other +enclaves. This would only make sense with read-only MSRs, and thus the option +has been discarded. + +Attestation +=========== + +Local Attestation +----------------- + +In local attestation an enclave creates a **REPORT** data structure with +**ENCLS[EREPORT]**, which describes the origin of an enclave. In particular, it +contains a AES-CMAC of the enclave contents signed with a report key unique to +each processor. All enclaves have access to this key. + +This mechanism can also be used in addition as a communication channel as the +**REPORT** data structure includes a 64-byte field for variable information. + +Remote Attestation +------------------ + +Provisioning Certification Enclave (PCE), the root of trust for other enclaves, +generates a signing key from a fused key called Provisioning Certification Key. +PCE can then use this key to certify an attestation key of a QE, e.g. we get the +chain of trust down to the hardware if the Intel signed PCE is used. + +To use the needed keys, ATTRIBUTE.PROVISIONKEY is required but should be only +allowed for those who actually need it so that only the trusted parties can +certify QE's. + +A device file called /dev/sgx/provision exists to provide file descriptors that +act as privilege tokens for building provisioning enclaves. These can be +associated with enclaves with the ioctl SGX_IOC_ENCLAVE_SET_ATTRIBUTE. + +Encryption engines +================== + +In order to conceal the enclave data while it is out of the CPU package, +memory controller has to be extended with an encryption engine. MC can then +route incoming requests coming from CPU cores running in enclave mode to the +encryption engine. + +In CPUs prior to Icelake, Memory Encryption Engine (MEE) is used to +encrypt pages leaving the CPU caches. MEE uses a n-ary Merkle tree with root in +SRAM to maintain integrity of the encrypted data. This provides integrity and +anti-replay protection but does not scale to large memory sizes because the time +required to update the Merkle tree grows logarithmically in relation to the +memory size. + +CPUs starting from Icelake use Total Memory Encryption (TME) in the place of +MEE. TME throws away the Merkle tree, which means losing integrity and +anti-replay protection but also enables variable size memory pools for EPC. +Using this attack for benefit would require an interposer on the system bus. + +Backing storage +=============== + +Backing storage is shared and not accounted. It is implemented as a private +shmem file. Providing a backing storage in some form from user space is not +possible - accounting would go to invalid state as reclaimed pages would get +accounted to the processes of which behalf the kernel happened to be acting on. + +Access control +============== + +`mmap()` permissions are capped by the enclave permissions. A direct +consequence of this is that all the pages for an address range must be added +before `mmap()` can be applied. Effectively an enclave page with minimum +permission in the address range sets the permission cap for the mapping +operation. + +Usage Models +============ + +Shared Library +-------------- + +Sensitive data and the code that acts on it is partitioned from the application +into a separate library. The library is then linked as a DSO which can be loaded +into an enclave. The application can then make individual function calls into +the enclave through special SGX instructions. A run-time within the enclave is +configured to marshal function parameters into and out of the enclave and to +call the correct library function. + +Application Container +--------------------- + +An application may be loaded into a container enclave which is specially +configured with a library OS and run-time which permits the application to run. +The enclave run-time and library OS work together to execute the application +when a thread enters the enclave. + +References +========== + +"Supporting Third Party Attestation for Intel® SGX with Intel® Data Center +Attestation Primitives" + https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/f1/b8/intel-sgx-support-for-third-party-attestation.pdf -- 2.25.1