From: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jarkko@kernel.org, luto@kernel.org,
dave.hansen@intel.com, rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com,
haitao.huang@intel.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/25] x86/sgx: Wipe out EREMOVE from sgx_free_epc_page()
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:16:43 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210323121643.e06403a1bc7819bab7c15d95@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210322223726.GJ6481@zn.tnic>
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:37:26 +0100 Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:06:43AM +1300, Kai Huang wrote:
> > This path is called by host SGX driver only, so yes this leaking is done by
> > host enclaves only.
>
> Yes, so I was told.
>
> > This patch is purpose is to break EREMOVE out of sgx_free_epc_page() so virtual
> > EPC code can use sgx_free_epc_page(), and handle EREMOVE logic differently.
> > This patch doesn't have intention to bring functional change. I changed the
> > error msg because Dave said it worth to give a message saying EPC page is
> > leaked, and I thought this minor change won't break anything.
>
> I read that already - you don't have to repeat it.
>
> > btw, currently virtual EPC code (patch 5) handles in similar way: There's one
> > EREMOVE error is expected and virtual EPC code can handle, but for other
> > errors, it means kernel bug, and virtual EPC code gives a WARN(), and that EPC
> > page is leaked too:
> >
> > + WARN_ONCE(ret != SGX_CHILD_PRESENT,
> > + "EREMOVE (EPC page 0x%lx): unexpected error: %d\n",
> > + sgx_get_epc_phys_addr(epc_page), ret);
> > + return ret;
> >
> > So to me they are just WARN() to catch kernel bug.
>
> You don't care about users, do you? Because when that error happens,
> they won't come crying to you to fix it.
>
> Lemme save you some trouble: we don't take half-baked code into the
> kernel until stuff has been discussed and analyzed properly. So instead
> of trying to downplay this, try answering my questions.
>
> Here's another one: when does EREMOVE fail?
>
> /me goes and looks it up
>
> "The instruction fails if the operand is not properly aligned or does
> not refer to an EPC page or the page is in use by another thread, or
> other threads are running in the enclave to which the page belongs. In
> addition the instruction fails if the operand refers to an SECS with
> associations."
>
> And I guess those conditions will become more in the future.
>
> Now, let's play. I'm the cloud admin and you're cloud OS customer
> support. I say:
>
> "I got this scary error message while running enclaves on my server
>
> "EREMOVE returned ... . EPC page leaked. Reboot required to retrieve leaked pages."
>
> but I cannot reboot that machine because there are guests running on it
> and I'm getting paid for those guests and I might get sued if I do?"
>
> Your turn, go wild.
I suppose admin can migrate those VMs, and then engineers can analyse the root
cause of such failure, and then fix it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-22 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 134+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-19 7:29 [PATCH v3 00/25] KVM SGX virtualization support Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:22 ` [PATCH v3 01/25] x86/cpufeatures: Make SGX_LC feature bit depend on SGX bit Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:22 ` [PATCH v3 02/25] x86/cpufeatures: Add SGX1 and SGX2 sub-features Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson
2021-03-19 7:22 ` [PATCH v3 03/25] x86/sgx: Wipe out EREMOVE from sgx_free_epc_page() Kai Huang
2021-03-22 18:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-22 18:56 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-03-22 19:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-03-22 20:43 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-23 16:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-03-22 19:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-22 19:37 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-03-22 20:36 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-22 21:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-22 22:06 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-22 22:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-22 23:16 ` Kai Huang [this message]
2021-03-23 15:45 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-03-23 16:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-23 16:21 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-03-23 16:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-23 16:51 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-03-24 9:38 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-24 10:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-03-24 10:48 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-24 11:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-03-24 23:23 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-24 23:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-03-24 23:46 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-25 8:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-25 9:38 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-25 16:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-24 9:28 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-03-23 16:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-03-23 17:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-03-23 17:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-03-23 17:16 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-03-23 18:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-24 9:26 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-03-22 22:23 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-25 9:30 ` [PATCH v4 " Kai Huang
2021-03-26 19:48 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-03-26 20:38 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-26 21:39 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:22 ` [PATCH v3 04/25] x86/sgx: Add SGX_CHILD_PRESENT hardware error code Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson
2021-03-19 7:22 ` [PATCH v3 05/25] x86/sgx: Introduce virtual EPC for use by KVM guests Kai Huang
2021-03-25 9:36 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-26 15:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-26 15:17 ` Dave Hansen
2021-03-26 15:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-26 15:35 ` Dave Hansen
2021-03-26 17:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-31 1:10 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-31 6:44 ` Boris Petkov
2021-03-31 6:51 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-31 7:44 ` Boris Petkov
2021-03-31 8:53 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-31 12:20 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-01 18:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-01 23:38 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-01 9:45 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-01 9:42 ` [PATCH v4 " Kai Huang
2021-04-05 9:01 ` [PATCH v3 " Borislav Petkov
2021-04-05 21:46 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-06 8:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-06 9:04 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson
2021-03-19 7:22 ` [PATCH v3 06/25] x86/cpu/intel: Allow SGX virtualization without Launch Control support Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 07/25] x86/sgx: Initialize virtual EPC driver even when SGX driver is disabled Kai Huang
2021-04-02 9:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-02 11:08 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-02 11:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-02 11:38 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-02 15:42 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-02 19:08 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-02 19:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-02 19:30 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-02 19:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 08/25] x86/sgx: Expose SGX architectural definitions to the kernel Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 09/25] x86/sgx: Move ENCLS leaf definitions to sgx.h Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 10/25] x86/sgx: Add SGX2 ENCLS leaf definitions (EAUG, EMODPR and EMODT) Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 11/25] x86/sgx: Add encls_faulted() helper Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 12/25] x86/sgx: Add helper to update SGX_LEPUBKEYHASHn MSRs Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 13/25] x86/sgx: Add helpers to expose ECREATE and EINIT to KVM Kai Huang
2021-04-05 9:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-05 21:44 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-06 7:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-06 8:59 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-06 9:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-06 9:24 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-06 9:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-06 9:41 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-06 17:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-06 20:33 ` Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 14/25] x86/sgx: Move provisioning device creation out of SGX driver Kai Huang
2021-04-07 10:03 ` [tip: x86/sgx] " tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 15/25] KVM: x86: Export kvm_mmu_gva_to_gpa_{read,write}() for SGX (VMX) Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 16/25] KVM: x86: Define new #PF SGX error code bit Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 17/25] KVM: x86: Add support for reverse CPUID lookup of scattered features Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 18/25] KVM: x86: Add reverse-CPUID lookup support for scattered SGX features Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 19/25] KVM: VMX: Add basic handling of VM-Exit from SGX enclave Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 20/25] KVM: VMX: Frame in ENCLS handler for SGX virtualization Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 21/25] KVM: VMX: Add SGX ENCLS[ECREATE] handler to enforce CPUID restrictions Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 22/25] KVM: VMX: Add emulation of SGX Launch Control LE hash MSRs Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 23/25] KVM: VMX: Add ENCLS[EINIT] handler to support SGX Launch Control (LC) Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:23 ` [PATCH v3 24/25] KVM: VMX: Enable SGX virtualization for SGX1, SGX2 and LC Kai Huang
2021-03-19 7:24 ` [PATCH v3 25/25] KVM: x86: Add capability to grant VM access to privileged SGX attribute Kai Huang
2021-03-19 14:52 ` [PATCH v3 00/25] KVM SGX virtualization support Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-03-22 10:03 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-22 10:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-03-26 22:46 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-03-28 21:01 ` Huang, Kai
2021-03-31 23:23 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-03-09 1:39 [PATCH v2 03/25] x86/sgx: Wipe out EREMOVE from sgx_free_epc_page() Kai Huang
2021-03-11 2:01 ` [PATCH v3 " Kai Huang
2021-03-12 21:21 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-03-13 10:45 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-03-15 7:12 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-15 13:18 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-03-15 13:19 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-03-15 20:29 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-15 22:59 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-03-15 23:50 ` Kai Huang
2021-03-15 23:11 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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