From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Jethro Beekman <jethro@fortanix.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
dave.hansen@intel.com, sean.j.christopherson@intel.com,
nhorman@redhat.com, npmccallum@redhat.com,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 12/13] intel_sgx: driver documentation
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:30:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180619133043.GG5609@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6200618e-bcc8-23ba-afe8-4c6be8b364f0@fortanix.com>
On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:32:17AM -0700, Jethro Beekman wrote:
> On 2018-06-08 10:09, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > +Launching enclaves
> > +------------------
> > +
> > +For privileged enclaves the launch is performed simply by submitting the
> > +SIGSTRUCT for that enclave to ENCLS(EINIT). For unprivileged enclaves the
> > +driver hosts a process in ring-3 that hosts a launch enclave signed with a key
> > +supplied for kbuild.
> > +
> > +The current implementation of the launch enclave generates a token for any
> > +enclave. In the future it could be potentially extended to have ways to
> > +configure policy what can be lauched.
> > +
> > +The driver will fail to initialize if it cannot start its own launch enclave.
> > +A user space application can submit a SIGSTRUCT instance through the ioctl API.
> > +The kernel will take care of the rest.
> > +
> > +This design assures that the Linux kernel has always full control, which
> > +enclaves get to launch and which do not, even if the public key MSRs are
>
> As discussed previously at length, since the kernel needs to execute
> ENCLS[EINIT], it has full control to deny the launching of enclaves
> regardless of any launch enclave implementation. Please change this
> misleading statement.
Remember the discussion, forgot to change it. I'll fix this for the next
version.
/Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-19 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-08 17:09 [PATCH v11 00/13] Intel SGX1 support Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 01/13] compiler.h, kasan: add __SANITIZE_ADDRESS__ check for __no_kasan_or_inline Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 02/13] x86, sgx: updated MAINTAINERS Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 03/13] x86, sgx: add SGX definitions to cpufeature Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 04/13] x86, sgx: add SGX definitions to msr-index.h Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:25 ` Dave Hansen
2018-06-19 13:18 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-19 14:01 ` Dave Hansen
2018-06-21 17:22 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 05/13] x86, cpufeatures: add Intel-defined SGX leaf CPUID_12_EAX Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 06/13] crypto: aesni: add minimal build option for SGX LE Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:27 ` Dave Hansen
2018-06-11 15:24 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 07/13] x86, sgx: detect Intel SGX Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:36 ` Dave Hansen
2018-06-18 21:36 ` [intel-sgx-kernel-dev] " Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-25 7:39 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-19 13:33 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-11 11:35 ` Neil Horman
2018-06-19 13:34 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 08/13] x86, sgx: added ENCLS wrappers Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:43 ` Dave Hansen
2018-06-19 13:25 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-20 13:12 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-25 9:16 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 09/13] x86, sgx: basic routines for enclave page cache Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 18:21 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-06-18 21:33 ` [intel-sgx-kernel-dev] " Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-25 7:36 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-19 14:08 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-19 15:44 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-06-08 18:24 ` Dave Hansen
2018-06-19 14:57 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-19 15:19 ` Neil Horman
2018-06-19 15:32 ` Dave Hansen
2018-06-25 9:01 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-19 15:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-25 9:14 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-10 5:32 ` [intel-sgx-kernel-dev] " Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-11 15:12 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-20 13:21 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-25 9:21 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-25 16:14 ` Neil Horman
2018-06-20 15:26 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-25 9:21 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 10/13] intel_sgx: driver for Intel Software Guard Extensions Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 19:35 ` Dave Hansen
2018-06-19 13:29 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 11/13] intel_sgx: ptrace() support Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 18:34 ` Dave Hansen
2018-06-11 15:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-19 13:38 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 12/13] intel_sgx: driver documentation Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 18:32 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-06-19 13:30 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2018-06-08 21:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-06-19 13:31 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 17:09 ` [PATCH v11 13/13] intel_sgx: in-kernel launch enclave Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-08 18:50 ` [intel-sgx-kernel-dev] " Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-19 15:05 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-10 5:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-11 5:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-11 11:52 ` Neil Horman
2018-06-12 4:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-12 17:45 ` Neil Horman
2018-06-18 21:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-19 13:17 ` Neil Horman
2018-06-20 16:28 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2018-06-20 18:16 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-06-20 18:39 ` Jethro Beekman
2018-06-20 21:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-21 12:32 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2018-06-21 15:29 ` Neil Horman
2018-06-21 19:11 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2018-06-21 21:20 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-25 21:00 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2018-06-25 22:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-21 22:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-25 21:06 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2018-06-25 23:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-25 9:41 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-25 15:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-06-25 21:28 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2018-06-26 8:43 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-26 15:01 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2018-06-27 15:31 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-21 12:12 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2018-06-25 9:27 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-25 21:26 ` Nathaniel McCallum
2018-06-20 7:23 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-12 10:50 ` [PATCH v11 00/13] Intel SGX1 support Pavel Machek
2018-06-19 14:59 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-06-19 20:04 ` Pavel Machek
2018-06-19 20:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-19 21:48 ` Josh Triplett
2018-12-09 20:06 ` Pavel Machek
2018-12-10 7:47 ` Josh Triplett
2018-12-10 8:27 ` Pavel Machek
2018-12-10 23:12 ` Josh Triplett
2018-12-11 18:10 ` Dave Hansen
2018-12-11 18:31 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-06-19 20:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-21 12:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-06-25 9:44 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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