Re: [RFC PATCH 11/23] x86/sgx: Add helpers to expose ECREATE and EINIT to KVM

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On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 13:23:37 -0800 Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 1/6/21 1:04 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021, Dave Hansen wrote:
> >> On 1/5/21 5:56 PM, Kai Huang wrote:
> >>> From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Provide wrappers around __ecreate() and __einit() to hide the ugliness
> >>> of overloading the ENCLS return value to encode multiple error formats
> >>> in a single int.  KVM will trap-and-execute ECREATE and EINIT as part
> >>> of SGX virtualization, and on an exception, KVM needs the trapnr so that
> >>> it can inject the correct fault into the guest.
> >>
> >> This is missing a bit of a step about how and why ECREATE needs to be
> >> run in the host in the first place.
> > 
> > There's (hopefully) good info in the KVM usage patch that can be borrowed:
> > 
> >   Add an ECREATE handler that will be used to intercept ECREATE for the
> >   purpose of enforcing and enclave's MISCSELECT, ATTRIBUTES and XFRM, i.e.
> >   to allow userspace to restrict SGX features via CPUID.  ECREATE will be
> >   intercepted when any of the aforementioned masks diverges from hardware
> >   in order to enforce the desired CPUID model, i.e. inject #GP if the
> >   guest attempts to set a bit that hasn't been enumerated as allowed-1 in
> >   CPUID.
> 
> OK, so in plain language: the bare-metal kernel must intercept ECREATE
> to be able to impose policies on guests.  When it does this, the
> bare-metal kernel runs ECREATE against the userspace mapping of the
> virtualized EPC.

Thanks. I'll add this to commit message.

> 
> >>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sgx.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sgx.h
> >>> new file mode 100644
> >>> index 000000000000..0d643b985085
> >>> --- /dev/null
> >>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sgx.h
> >>> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> >>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> >>> +#ifndef _ASM_X86_SGX_H
> >>> +#define _ASM_X86_SGX_H
> >>> +
> >>> +#include <linux/types.h>
> >>> +
> >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_SGX_VIRTUALIZATION
> >>> +struct sgx_pageinfo;
> >>> +
> >>> +int sgx_virt_ecreate(struct sgx_pageinfo *pageinfo, void __user *secs,
> >>> +		     int *trapnr);
> >>> +int sgx_virt_einit(void __user *sigstruct, void __user *token,
> >>> +		   void __user *secs, u64 *lepubkeyhash, int *trapnr);
> >>> +#endif
> >>> +
> >>> +#endif /* _ASM_X86_SGX_H */
> >>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/virt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/virt.c
> >>> index d625551ccf25..4e9810ba9259 100644
> >>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/virt.c
> >>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/virt.c
> >>> @@ -261,3 +261,58 @@ int __init sgx_virt_epc_init(void)
> >>>  
> >>>  	return misc_register(&sgx_virt_epc_dev);
> >>>  }
> >>> +
> >>> +int sgx_virt_ecreate(struct sgx_pageinfo *pageinfo, void __user *secs,
> >>> +		     int *trapnr)
> >>> +{
> >>> +	int ret;
> >>> +
> >>> +	__uaccess_begin();
> >>> +	ret = __ecreate(pageinfo, (void *)secs);
> >>> +	__uaccess_end();
> >>
> >> The __uaccess_begin/end() worries me.  There are *very* few of these in
> >> the kernel and it seems like something we want to use as sparingly as
> >> possible.
> >>
> >> Why don't we just use the kernel mapping for 'secs' and not have to deal
> >> with stac/clac?
> > 
> > The kernel mapping isn't readily available. 
> 
> Oh, duh.  There's no kernel mapping for EPC... it's not RAM in the first
> place.
> 
> > At this point, it's not even
> > guaranteed that @secs points at an EPC page.  Unlike the driver code, where the
> > EPC page is allocated on-demand by the kernel, the pointer here is userspace
> > (technically guest) controlled.  The caller (KVM) is responsible for ensuring
> > it's a valid userspace address, but the SGX/EPC specific checks are mostly
> > deferred to hardware.
> 
> Ahh, got it.  Kai, could we get some of this into comments or the changelog?

Yes I'll add some into comments.



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