linux-kernel - Re: SGX vs LSM (Re: [PATCH v20 00/28] Intel SGX1 support)

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Message-ID: <20190517160505.GB15006@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 May 2019 09:05:05 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Xing, Cedric" <cedric.xing@...el.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        "selinux@...r.kernel.org" <selinux@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jethro Beekman <jethro@...tanix.com>,
        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Dr. Greg" <greg@...ellic.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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        "Huang, Haitao" <haitao.huang@...el.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
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        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: SGX vs LSM (Re: [PATCH v20 00/28] Intel SGX1 support)

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 05:35:16PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:23 PM Xing, Cedric <cedric.xing@...el.com> wrote:
> > And if you are with me on that bigger picture, the next question is: what
> > should be the default behavior of security_sgx_mprot() for
> > existing/non-SGX-aware LSM modules/policies? I'd say a reasonable default
> > is to allow R, RW and RX, but not anything else. It'd suffice to get rid of
> > EXECMEM/EXECMOD requirements on enclave applications. For SGX1, EPCM
> > permissions are immutable so it really doesn't matter what
> > security_sgx_mprot() does. For SGX2 and beyond, there's still time and new
> > SGX-aware LSM modules/policies will probably have emerged by then.
> 
> I hadn't thought about the SGX1 vs SGX2 difference.  If the driver
> initially only wants to support SGX1, then I guess we really could get
> away with constraining the EPC flags based on the source page
> permission and not restricting mprotect() and mmap() permissions on
> /dev/sgx/enclave at all.

No, SGX1 vs SGX2 support in the kernel is irrelevant.  Well, unless the
driver simply refuses to load on SGX2 hardware, but I don't think anyone
wants to go that route.  There is no enabling or attribute bit required
to execute ENCLU[EMODPE], e.g. an enclave can effect RW->RWX in the EPCM
on SGX2 hardware regardless of what the kernel is doing.

IMO the kernel should ignore the EPCM from an LSM perspective.