Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] x86/sgx: eextend ioctl

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On 4/1/21 6:11 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 4/1/21 7:56 AM, Raoul Strackx wrote:
>>
>> SOLUTION OF THIS PATCH
>> This patch adds a new ioctl to enable userspace to execute EEXTEND leaf 
>> functions per 256 bytes of enclave memory. This enables enclaves to be 
>> build as specified by enclave providers.
> 
> I think tying the user ABI to the SGX architecture this closely is a
> mistake.
> 
> Do we need another ioctl() or can we just relax the existing add_pages
> ioctl() to allow unaligned addresses?
> 

I've considered this. In order to do an EEXTEND without an EADD, we'd
need to add a flag DONT_ADD_PAGES flag to `add_pages` ioctl as well. Two
separate ioctls, one for adding, another for extending made more sense
to me.

Raoul



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