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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	dave.hansen@intel.com, nhorman@redhat.com, npmccallum@redhat.com,
	haitao.huang@intel.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, kai.svahn@intel.com, josh@joshtriplett.org,
	luto@kernel.org, kai.huang@intel.com, rientjes@google.com,
	cedric.xing@intel.com, puiterwijk@redhat.com,
	Jethro Beekman <jethro@fortanix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v30 04/20] x86/sgx: Add SGX microarchitectural data structures
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 10:20:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200525082013.GC25636@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200522195017.GA121470@linux.intel.com>

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:50:17PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> If other values except two are never going to be used it is more than a
> legit point to validate this field.
> 
> It also the potential to use ~0x8086 bits to be defined later if ever
> needed lets say for some kernel specific purpose.

Yah, let's cover our ass for the future. We have all seen the "this
won't be used" but then "we're using it" change of heart. IOW, let's
align with what the hw checks and we can always relax that in the future
but not the other way around.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-25  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-15  0:43 [PATCH v30 00/20] Intel SGX foundations Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 01/20] x86/cpufeatures: x86/msr: Add Intel SGX hardware bits Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-20 12:16   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-20 14:00     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 02/20] x86/cpufeatures: x86/msr: Intel SGX Launch Control " Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-20 12:23   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-20 14:04     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 03/20] x86/mm: x86/sgx: Signal SIGSEGV with PF_SGX Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 04/20] x86/sgx: Add SGX microarchitectural data structures Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-20 18:47   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-20 21:04     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22 15:54     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-22 16:13       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22 19:50         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-25  8:20           ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-05-27 19:43             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 05/20] x86/sgx: Add wrappers for ENCLS leaf functions Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 06/20] x86/cpu/intel: Detect SGX support Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 07/20] x86/sgx: Enumerate and track EPC sections Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-25  9:23   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-27  3:56     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-27 20:35       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-28  7:36         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  5:25       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  5:35         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  6:14           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  6:16             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  5:13     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 08/20] x86/sgx: Add functions to allocate and free EPC pages Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-26 12:52   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-27  4:21     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-27 20:46       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-28  0:52         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-28  6:51           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  1:23         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28  1:36           ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-28  6:52             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28 17:16               ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-28 17:19                 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-28 17:27                   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-28 17:34                     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-28 19:07                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-28 19:59                   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-29  3:28                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29  3:37                       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-29  5:07                         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29  8:12                         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29  8:13                           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29  3:38                       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:43 ` [PATCH v30 09/20] mm: Introduce vm_ops->may_mprotect() Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29 12:10   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-29 18:18     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-29 18:28   ` Dave Hansen
2020-05-31 23:12     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 10/20] x86/sgx: Linux Enclave Driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-21 19:12   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22 19:26     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-22 19:39     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-22  3:33   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 11/20] x86/sgx: Add provisioning Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 12/20] x86/sgx: Add a page reclaimer Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-22  6:58   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22 19:57     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-22 21:52       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22  7:15   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-22 19:47     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 13/20] x86/sgx: ptrace() support for the SGX driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 14/20] x86/vdso: Add support for exception fixup in vDSO functions Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 15/20] x86/fault: Add helper function to sanitize error code Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 16/20] x86/traps: Attempt to fixup exceptions in vDSO before signaling Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 17/20] x86/vdso: Implement a vDSO for Intel SGX enclave call Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 18/20] selftests/x86: Add a selftest for SGX Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 19/20] docs: x86/sgx: Document SGX micro architecture and kernel internals Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-15  0:44 ` [PATCH v30 20/20] x86/sgx: Update MAINTAINERS Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-05-16  8:57 ` [PATCH] x86/cpu/intel: Add nosgx kernel parameter Jarkko Sakkinen

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