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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v33 12/21] x86/sgx: Allow a limited use of ATTRIBUTE.PROVISIONKEY for attestation
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 05:43:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200703024306.GC306897@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200630084956.GB1093@zn.tnic>

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:49:56AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 03:04:00PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > I don't see this acronym resolved anywhere in the whole patchset.
> > 
> > Quoting Enclave.
> 
> Yah, pls add it somewhere.
> 
> > /dev/sgx/provision is root-only by default, the expectation is that the admin
> > will configure the system to grant only specific enclaves access to the
> > PROVISION_KEY.
> 
> Uuh, I don't like "the expectation is" - the reality happens to turn
> differently, more often than not.
> 
> > In this series, access is fairly binary, i.e. there's no additional kernel
> > infrastructure to help userspace make per-enclave decisions.  There have been
> > more than a few proposals on how to extend the kernel to help provide better
> > granularity, e.g. LSM hooks, but it was generally agreed to punt that stuff
> > to post-upstreaming to keep things "simple" once we went far enough down
> > various paths to ensure we weren't painting ourselves into a corner.
> 
> So this all sounds to me like we should not upstream /dev/sgx/provision
> now but delay it until the infrastructure for that has been made more
> concrete. We can always add it then. Changing it after the fact -
> if we have to and for whatever reason - would be a lot harder for a
> user-visible interface which someone has started using already.
> 
> So I'd leave  that out from the initial patchset.

I'm trying to understand what is meant by "more concrete". Attestation
is needed for most enclave applications.

If this patch is dropped, should we also allow PROVISION_KEY attribute
to all enclaves?  Dropping this patch and keeping that check in the
driver patch is not very coherent behaviour.

/Jarkko

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-03  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-17 22:08 [PATCH v33 00/21] Intel SGX foundations Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 01/21] x86/cpufeatures: x86/msr: Add Intel SGX hardware bits Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-22 17:37   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-25  1:25     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 02/21] x86/cpufeatures: x86/msr: Add Intel SGX Launch Control " Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-24 13:04   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-24 14:34     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-25  1:28       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 03/21] x86/mm: x86/sgx: Signal SIGSEGV with PF_SGX Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-25  8:59   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-25 15:34     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-25 16:49       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-25 20:52     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-25 21:11       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-26 13:34         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 04/21] x86/sgx: Add SGX microarchitectural data structures Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 05/21] x86/sgx: Add wrappers for ENCLS leaf functions Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 06/21] x86/cpu/intel: Detect SGX support Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 07/21] x86/cpu/intel: Add nosgx kernel parameter Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 08/21] x86/sgx: Initialize metadata for Enclave Page Cache (EPC) sections Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-25 10:14   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-25 20:11     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 09/21] x86/sgx: Add __sgx_alloc_epc_page() and sgx_free_epc_page() Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-25 17:06   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-25 20:55     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 10/21] mm: Introduce vm_ops->may_mprotect() Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-25 17:14   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-25 17:30     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-25 18:06       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-25 22:40         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-25 22:26     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 11/21] x86/sgx: Linux Enclave Driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-25 17:23   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-25 18:34     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-25 18:45       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-26 14:19       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-25 20:21     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-25 20:25       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-26 13:40         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-25 18:53   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-26 14:17     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-26  9:14   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-26 14:16     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-26 14:20       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-07-03 23:04         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-03  3:09     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-26 15:34   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-07-04  0:13     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-26 21:26     ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-27  1:52       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-27 10:05       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-10-27 15:20         ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-27 15:37           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-27 17:43   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-29 15:27     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-29 15:37       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-07-04  1:43       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-07  1:38         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-07-07  3:29           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-04  1:42     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-02  3:59   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-07-04  3:31     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-09-02  3:06       ` Haitao Huang
2020-09-02 16:10         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-02 18:40           ` Haitao Huang
2020-09-04 12:01         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 12/21] x86/sgx: Allow a limited use of ATTRIBUTE.PROVISIONKEY for attestation Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-29 16:02   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-29 22:04     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-30  8:49       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-30 14:20         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-30 17:13           ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-02 20:47         ` Dr. Greg
2020-07-03  2:43         ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2020-07-03  2:38       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-03  2:32     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-03  2:55       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 13/21] x86/sgx: Add a page reclaimer Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 14/21] x86/sgx: ptrace() support for the SGX driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 15/21] x86/vdso: Add support for exception fixup in vDSO functions Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-29 17:10   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-30  6:00     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-30  8:41       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-30 14:55         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-30 16:48         ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-30 17:23           ` Sean Christopherson
2020-07-02 12:52           ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 16/21] x86/fault: Add helper function to sanitize error code Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 17/21] x86/traps: Attempt to fixup exceptions in vDSO before signaling Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 18/21] x86/vdso: Implement a vDSO for Intel SGX enclave call Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 19/21] selftests/x86: Add a selftest for SGX Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 20/21] docs: x86/sgx: Document SGX micro architecture and kernel internals Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-17 22:08 ` [PATCH v33 21/21] x86/sgx: Update MAINTAINERS Jarkko Sakkinen

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