Re: [PATCH v8 3/3] x86/sgx: Fine grained SGX MCA behavior for virtualization

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On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 10:53:30PM +0800, Zhiquan Li wrote:
> Today, if a guest accesses an SGX EPC page with memory failure,
> the kernel behavior will kill the entire guest.  This blast
> radius is too large.  It would be idea to kill only the SGX
> application inside the guest.
> 
> To fix this, send a SIGBUS to host userspace (like QEMU) which can
> follow up by injecting a #MC to the guest.
> 
> SGX virtual EPC driver doesn't explicitly prevent virtual EPC instance
> being shared by multiple VMs via fork().  However KVM doesn't support
> running a VM across multiple mm structures, and the de facto userspace
> hypervisor (Qemu) doesn't use fork() to create a new VM, so in practice
> this should not happen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhiquan Li <zhiquan1.li@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sgx/443cb425-009c-2784-56f4-5e707122de76@xxxxxxxxx/T/#m1d1f4098f4fad78034e8706a60e4d79c119db407
> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx>

ditto

BR, Jarkko



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