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Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 18:04:40 +0000
From: Jethro Beekman <jethro@...tanix.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
"Xing, Cedric" <cedric.xing@...el.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v20 00/28] Intel SGX1 support
On 2019-05-10 10:54, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 5/10/19 10:37 AM, Jethro Beekman wrote:
>> It does assume a specific format, namely, that the memory layout
>> (including page types/permissions) of the enclave can be represented in
>> a "flat file" on disk, or at least that the enclave memory contents
>> consist of 4096-byte chunks in that file.
>
> I _think_ Cedric's point is that, to the kernel,
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 is a "flat file" because the kernel
> doesn't have any part in parsing the executable format of a shared library.
>
> I actually don't know how it works, though. Do we just just trust that
> the userspace parsing of the .so format is correct? Do we just assume
> that any part of a file passing IMA checks can be PROT_EXEC?
>
ELF files are explicitly designed such that you can map them (with mmap)
in 4096-byte chunks. However, sometimes there's overlap and you will
sometimes see that a particular offset is mapped twice because the first
half of the page in the file belongs to an RX range and the second half
to an R-only range. Also, ELF files don't (normally) describe stack,
heap, etc. which you do need for enclaves.
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Jethro Beekman | Fortanix
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