linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 15/31] x86/sgx: Support restricting of enclave page permissions

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Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:19:44 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
To:     Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, tglx@...utronix.de, bp@...en8.de,
        luto@...nel.org, mingo@...hat.com, linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, shuah@...nel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     seanjc@...gle.com, kai.huang@...el.com, cathy.zhang@...el.com,
        cedric.xing@...el.com, haitao.huang@...el.com,
        mark.shanahan@...el.com, vijay.dhanraj@...el.com, hpa@...or.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 15/31] x86/sgx: Support restricting of enclave page
 permissions

On Thu, 2022-04-14 at 14:19 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 14:10 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> > In the initial (SGX1) version of SGX, pages in an enclave need to be
> > created with permissions that support all usages of the pages, from the
> > time the enclave is initialized until it is unloaded. For example,
> > pages used by a JIT compiler or when code needs to otherwise be
> > relocated need to always have RWX permissions.
> > 
> > SGX2 includes a new function ENCLS[EMODPR] that is run from the kernel
> > and can be used to restrict the EPCM permissions of regular enclave
> > pages within an initialized enclave.
> > 
> > Introduce ioctl() SGX_IOC_ENCLAVE_RESTRICT_PERMISSIONS to support
> > restricting EPCM permissions. With this ioctl() the user specifies
> > a page range and the EPCM permissions to be applied to all pages in
> > the provided range. ENCLS[EMODPR] is run to restrict the EPCM
> > permissions followed by the ENCLS[ETRACK] flow that will ensure
> > no cached linear-to-physical address mappings to the changed
> > pages remain.
> > 
> > It is possible for the permission change request to fail on any
> > page within the provided range, either with an error encountered
> > by the kernel or by the SGX hardware while running
> > ENCLS[EMODPR]. To support partial success the ioctl() returns an
> > error code based on failures encountered by the kernel as well
> > as two result output parameters: one for the number of pages
> > that were successfully changed and one for the SGX return code.
> > 
> > The page table entry permissions are not impacted by the EPCM
> > permission changes. VMAs and PTEs will continue to allow the
> > maximum vetted permissions determined at the time the pages
> > are added to the enclave. The SGX error code in a page fault
> > will indicate if it was an EPCM permission check that prevented
> > an access attempt.
> > 
> > No checking is done to ensure that the permissions are actually
> > being restricted. This is because the enclave may have relaxed
> > the EPCM permissions from within the enclave without the kernel
> > knowing. An attempt to relax permissions using this call will
> > be ignored by the hardware.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>

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Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>

BR, Jarkko