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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:30:43 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To:     Jethro Beekman <jethro@fortanix.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 12/13] intel_sgx: driver documentation
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:32:17AM -0700, Jethro Beekman wrote:
> On 2018-06-08 10:09, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > +Launching enclaves
> > +------------------
> > +
> > +For privileged enclaves the launch is performed simply by submitting the
> > +SIGSTRUCT for that enclave to ENCLS(EINIT). For unprivileged enclaves the
> > +driver hosts a process in ring-3 that hosts a launch enclave signed with a key
> > +supplied for kbuild.
> > +
> > +The current implementation of the launch enclave generates a token for any
> > +enclave. In the future it could be potentially extended to have ways to
> > +configure policy what can be lauched.
> > +
> > +The driver will fail to initialize if it cannot start its own launch enclave.
> > +A user space application can submit a SIGSTRUCT instance through the ioctl API.
> > +The kernel will take care of the rest.
> > +
> > +This design assures that the Linux kernel has always full control, which
> > +enclaves get to launch and which do not, even if the public key MSRs are
> 
> As discussed previously at length, since the kernel needs to execute
> ENCLS[EINIT], it has full control to deny the launching of enclaves
> regardless of any launch enclave implementation. Please change this
> misleading statement.

Remember the discussion, forgot to change it. I'll fix this for the next
version.

/Jarkko