Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/27] KVM SGX virtualization support

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On 2/3/21 3:32 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>>> Yeah, special casing KVM is almost always the wrong thing to do.
>>>> Anything that KVM can do, other subsystems will do as well.
>>> Agreed.  Thwarting ioremap itself seems like the right way to go.
>> This sounds irrelevant to KVM SGX, thus I won't include it to KVM SGX series.
> I would say it's relevant, but a pre-existing bug.  Same net effect on what's
> needed for this series..
> 
> I say it's a pre-existing bug, because I'm pretty sure KVM can be coerced into
> accessing the EPC by handing KVM a memslot that's backed by an enclave that was
> created by host userspace (via /dev/sgx_enclave).

Dang, you beat me to it.  I was composing another email that said the
exact same thing.

I guess we need to take a closer look at the KVM fallout from this.
It's a few spots where it KVM knew it might be consuming garbage.  It
just get extra weird stinky garbage now.



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