From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Jethro Beekman <jethro@fortanix.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"Christopherson, Sean J" <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
"nhorman@redhat.com" <nhorman@redhat.com>,
"npmccallum@redhat.com" <npmccallum@redhat.com>,
"Ayoun, Serge" <serge.ayoun@intel.com>,
"shay.katz-zamir@intel.com" <shay.katz-zamir@intel.com>,
"linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org" <linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: RFC: userspace exception fixups
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:05:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181119140543.GF8755@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ce304dba-0b02-02e2-4de8-212cd3bd1876@fortanix.com>
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 05:17:26AM +0000, Jethro Beekman wrote:
> On 2018-11-18 18:32, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 09:15:48AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:53:40AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > > Hi all-
> > > >
> > > > The people working on SGX enablement are grappling with a somewhat
> > > > annoying issue: the x86 EENTER instruction is used from user code and
> > > > can, as part of its normal-ish operation, raise an exception. It is
> > > > also highly likely to be used from a library, and signal handling in
> > > > libraries is unpleasant at best.
> > > >
> > > > There's been some discussion of adding a vDSO entry point to wrap
> > > > EENTER and do something sensible with the exceptions, but I'm
> > > > wondering if a more general mechanism would be helpful.
> > >
> > > I haven't really followed all of this discussion because I've been busy
> > > working on the patch set but for me all of these approaches look awfully
> > > complicated.
> > >
> > > I'll throw my own suggestion and apologize if this has been already
> > > suggested and discarded: return-to-AEP.
> > >
> > > My idea is to do just a small extension to SGX AEX handling. At the
> > > moment hardware will RAX, RBX and RCX with ERESUME parameters. We can
> > > fill extend this by filling other three spare registers with exception
> > > information.
> > >
> > > AEP handler can then do whatever it wants to do with this information
> > > or just do ERESUME.
> >
> > A correction here. In practice this will add a requirement to have a bit
> > more complicated AEP code (check the regs for exceptions) than before
> > and not just bytes for ENCLU.
> >
> > e.g. AEP handler should be along the lines
> >
> > 1. #PF (or #UD or) happens. Kernel fills the registers when it cannot
> > handle the exception and returns back to user space i.e. to the
> > AEP handler.
> > 2. Check the registers containing exception information. If they have
> > been filled, take whatever actions user space wants to take.
> > 3. Otherwise, just ERESUME.
> >
> > From my point of view this is making the AEP parameter useful. Its
> > standard use is just weird (always point to a place just containing
> > ENCLU bytes, why the heck it even exists).
>
> I like this solution. Keeps things simple. One question: when an exception
> occurs, how does the kernel know whether to set special registers or send a
> signal?
Yes, and AFAIK people do in many cases people want to do something else
than just direct ERESUME in AEP handler so would neither be a major
bummer for user space. If I remember correctly you have such?
You can check the cases that we have for SIGSEGV (namely EPCM conflict)
from Sean's patch 08/23.
I'm open for expanding the scope. It is the easy part after there is
consensus for the handling mechanism :-)
/Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-19 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 163+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-01 17:53 RFC: userspace exception fixups Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-01 17:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-01 18:09 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-01 18:09 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-01 18:30 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-01 18:30 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-01 19:00 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-01 19:00 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-01 18:27 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-01 18:27 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-01 18:33 ` Jann Horn
2018-11-01 18:33 ` Jann Horn
2018-11-01 18:52 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-01 18:52 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-01 19:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-01 19:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-01 19:31 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-01 19:31 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-01 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-01 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-01 23:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-01 23:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-02 16:30 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 16:30 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 16:37 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-11-02 16:37 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-11-02 16:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 16:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 16:56 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-11-02 16:56 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-11-02 17:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-02 17:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-02 17:05 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-11-02 17:05 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-11-02 17:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-02 17:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-02 17:32 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-02 17:32 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-02 17:12 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 17:12 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 22:42 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-02 22:42 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-02 16:56 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-02 16:56 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-02 17:06 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 17:06 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 17:13 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-02 17:13 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-02 17:33 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 17:33 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 17:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-02 17:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-02 18:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 18:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 19:02 ` Jann Horn
2018-11-02 19:02 ` Jann Horn
2018-11-02 22:04 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 22:04 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-02 23:27 ` Jann Horn
2018-11-02 23:27 ` Jann Horn
2018-11-02 23:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-02 23:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-02 23:36 ` Jann Horn
2018-11-02 23:36 ` Jann Horn
2018-11-06 15:37 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-06 15:37 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-06 16:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 16:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 17:03 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-06 17:03 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-06 17:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-06 17:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-06 18:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 18:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 18:41 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-06 18:41 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-06 19:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 19:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 19:22 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-06 19:22 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-06 20:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 20:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 21:00 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-06 21:00 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-06 21:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 21:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 21:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 21:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 21:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-06 21:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-06 23:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 23:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 23:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-06 23:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-06 23:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-06 23:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-07 0:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-07 0:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-07 1:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-07 1:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-07 6:47 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-11-07 6:47 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-11-07 15:34 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-07 15:34 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-07 19:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-07 19:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-07 20:56 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-07 20:56 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-08 15:04 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-08 15:04 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-08 19:54 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-08 19:54 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-08 20:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-08 20:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-08 20:10 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-08 20:10 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-08 21:16 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-08 21:16 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-08 21:50 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-08 21:50 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-08 22:04 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-08 22:04 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-09 7:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-09 7:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-06 23:17 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-06 23:17 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-06 23:26 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-06 23:26 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-07 21:27 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-07 21:27 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-07 21:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-07 21:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-07 21:40 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-07 21:40 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-08 15:11 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-08 15:11 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-06 17:00 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-06 17:00 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-02 22:37 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-02 22:37 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-01 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-01 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-02 22:07 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-02 22:07 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-18 7:15 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-18 7:18 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-18 13:02 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-19 5:17 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-11-19 14:05 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2018-11-19 14:59 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-19 15:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-19 16:02 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-19 17:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-20 10:11 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-20 15:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-20 22:55 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-21 5:17 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-11-21 15:17 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-24 17:07 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-26 14:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-26 22:06 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-11-20 18:09 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-11-20 22:46 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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