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Message-ID: <7a456461cd1a23f5b8a3116d44e5b94db5f68826.camel@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:53:45 +0300
From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc: dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, seanjc@...gle.com, x86@...nel.org,
yang.zhong@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86: sgx_vepc: extract sgx_vepc_remove_page
On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 06:57 -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> For bare-metal SGX on real hardware, the hardware provides guarantees
> SGX state at reboot. For instance, all pages start out uninitialized.
> The vepc driver provides a similar guarantee today for freshly-opened
> vepc instances, but guests such as Windows expect all pages to be in
> uninitialized state on startup, including after every guest reboot.
>
> One way to do this is to simply close and reopen the /dev/sgx_vepc file
> descriptor and re-mmap the virtual EPC. However, this is problematic
> because it prevents sandboxing the userspace (for example forbidding
> open() after the guest starts; this is doable with heavy use of SCM_RIGHTS
> file descriptor passing).
>
> In order to implement this, we will need a ioctl that performs
> EREMOVE on all pages mapped by a /dev/sgx_vepc file descriptor:
> other possibilities, such as closing and reopening the device,
> are racy.
>
> Start the implementation by creating a separate function with just
> the __eremove wrapper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> ---
> v1->v2: keep WARN in sgx_vepc_free_page
>
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/virt.c | 12 +++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/virt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/virt.c
> index 64511c4a5200..59cdf3f742ac 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/virt.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/virt.c
> @@ -111,10 +111,8 @@ static int sgx_vepc_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static int sgx_vepc_free_page(struct sgx_epc_page *epc_page)
> +static int sgx_vepc_remove_page(struct sgx_epc_page *epc_page)
> {
> - int ret;
> -
> /*
> * Take a previously guest-owned EPC page and return it to the
> * general EPC page pool.
> @@ -124,7 +122,12 @@ static int sgx_vepc_free_page(struct sgx_epc_page *epc_page)
> * case that a guest properly EREMOVE'd this page, a superfluous
> * EREMOVE is harmless.
> */
> - ret = __eremove(sgx_get_epc_virt_addr(epc_page));
> + return __eremove(sgx_get_epc_virt_addr(epc_page));
> +}
> +
> +static int sgx_vepc_free_page(struct sgx_epc_page *epc_page)
> +{
> + int ret = sgx_vepc_remove_page(epc_page);
> if (ret) {
> /*
> * Only SGX_CHILD_PRESENT is expected, which is because of
> @@ -144,7 +147,6 @@ static int sgx_vepc_free_page(struct sgx_epc_page *epc_page)
> }
>
> sgx_free_epc_page(epc_page);
> -
> return 0;
> }
>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
/Jarkko
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