From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v33 11/21] x86/sgx: Linux Enclave Driver
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:17:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200626141750.GB390691@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200625185334.GN20319@zn.tnic>
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 08:53:34PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 01:08:33AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v33 11/21] x86/sgx: Linux Enclave Driver
> ^
> Add
I'll change it to "Add SGX enclave driver".
>
> > Intel Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a set of CPU instructions that
> > can be used by applications to set aside private regions of code and
> > data. The code outside the SGX hosted software entity is disallowed to
> > access the memory inside the enclave enforced by the CPU. We call these
> > entities as enclaves.
>
> s/as //
>
> > This commit implements a driver that provides an ioctl API to construct
>
> s/This commit implements/Implement/
>
> > and run enclaves. Enclaves are constructed from pages residing in
> > reserved physical memory areas. The contents of these pages can only be
> > accessed when they are mapped as part of an enclave, by a hardware
> > thread running inside the enclave.
> >
> > The starting state of an enclave consists of a fixed measured set of
> > pages that are copied to the EPC during the construction process by
> > using ENCLS leaf functions and Software Enclave Control Structure (SECS)
> > that defines the enclave properties.
> >
> > Enclave are constructed by using ENCLS leaf functions ECREATE, EADD and
>
> Enclaves
>
> > EINIT. ECREATE initializes SECS, EADD copies pages from system memory to
> > the EPC and EINIT check a given signed measurement and moves the enclave
>
> checks
>
> > into a state ready for execution.
> >
> > An initialized enclave can only be accessed through special Thread Control
> > Structure (TCS) pages by using ENCLU (ring-3 only) leaf EENTER. This leaf
> > function converts a thread into enclave mode and continues the execution in
> > the offset defined by the TCS provided to EENTER. An enclave is exited
> > through syscall, exception, interrupts or by explicitly calling another
> > ENCLU leaf EEXIT.
> >
> > The permissions, which enclave page is added will set the limit for maximum
> > permissions that can be set for mmap() and mprotect().
>
> I can't parse that sentence.
Neither can I.
> > This will
> > effectively allow to build different security schemes between producers and
> > consumers of enclaves. Later on we can increase granularity with LSM hooks
> > for page addition (i.e. for producers) and mapping of the enclave (i.e. for
> > consumers)
I rephrased the whole paragraph:
"
The mmap() permissions are capped by the contained enclave page
permissions. The mapped areas must also be opaque, i.e. each page address
must contain a page. This logic is implemented in sgx_encl_may_map().
"
> Other than that, nice explanation. I like that in a commit message.
>
> Thx.
Thank you.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
/Jarkko
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20200617220844.57423-1-jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
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 [this message]
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
2020-07-03 2:38 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-03 2:32 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-07-03 2:55 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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