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Subject: Re: RFC: userspace exception fixups
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On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:39:48PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 3:35 PM Sean Christopherson
> <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:00:56PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > >> On Nov 6, 2018, at 1:59 PM, Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 13:41 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > >> Sean, how does the current SDK AEX handler decide whether to do
> > > >> EENTER, ERESUME, or just bail and consider the enclave dead?  It seems
> > > >> like the *CPU* could give a big hint, but I don't see where there is
> > > >> any architectural indication of why the AEX code got called or any
> > > >> obvious way for the user code to know whether the exit was fixed up by
> > > >> the kernel?
> > > >
> > > > The SDK "unconditionally" does ERESUME at the AEP location, but that's
> > > > bit misleading because its signal handler may muck with the context's
> > > > RIP, e.g. to abort the enclave on a fatal fault.
> > > >
> > > > On an event/exception from within an enclave, the event is immediately
> > > > delivered after loading synthetic state and changing RIP to the AEP.
> > > > In other words, jamming CPU state is essentially a bunch of vectoring
> > > > ucode preamble, but from software's perspective it's a normal event
> > > > that happens to point at the AEP instead of somewhere in the enclave.
> > > > And because the signals the SDK cares about are all synchronous, the
> > > > SDK can simply hardcode ERESUME at the AEP since all of the fault logic
> > > > resides in its signal handler.  IRQs and whatnot simply trampoline back
> > > > into the enclave.
> > > >
> > > > Userspace can do something funky instead of ERESUME, but only *after*
> > > > IRET/RSM/VMRESUME has returned to the AEP location, and in Linux's
> > > > case, after the trap handler has run.
> > > >
> > > > Jumping back a bit, how much do we care about preventing userspace
> > > > from doing stupid things?
> > >
> > > My general feeling is that userspace should be allowed to do apparently
> > > stupid things. For example, as far as the kernel is concerned, Wine and
> > > DOSEMU are just user programs that do stupid things. Linux generally tries
> > > to provide a reasonably complete view of architectural behavior. This is
> > > in contrast to, say, Windows, where IIUC doing an unapproved WRFSBASE May
> > > cause very odd behavior indeed. So magic fixups that do non-architectural
> > > things are not so great.
> >
> > Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse, but what if we only did fixup on ENCLU
> > with a specific (ignored) prefix pattern?  I.e. effectively make the magic
> > fixup opt-in, falling back to signals.  Jamming RIP to skip ENCLU isn't
> > that far off the architecture, e.g. EENTER stuffs RCX with the next RIP so
> > that the enclave can EEXIT to immediately after the EENTER location.
> >
> 
> How does that even work, though?  On an AEX, RIP points to the ERESUME
> instruction, not the EENTER instruction, so if we skip it we just end
> up in lala land.

Userspace would obviously need to be aware of the fixup behavior, but
it actually works out fairly nicely to have a separate path for ERESUME
fixup since a fault on EENTER is generally fatal, whereas as a fault on
ERESUME might be recoverable.


do_eenter:
    mov     tcs, %rbx
    lea     async_exit, %rcx 
    mov     $EENTER, %rax
    ENCLU

/*
 * EEXIT or EENTER faulted.  In the latter case, %RAX already holds some
 * fault indicator, e.g. -EFAULT.
 */
eexit_or_eenter_fault:
    ret

async_exit:
    ENCLU

fixup_handler:
    <do fault stuff>
 
> How averse would everyone be to making enclave entry be a syscall?
> The user code would do sys_sgx_enter_enclave(), and the kernel would
> stash away the register state (vm86()-style), point RIP to the vDSO's
> ENCLU instruction, point RCX to another vDSO ENCLU instruction, and
> SYSRET.  The trap handlers would understand what's going on and
> restore register state accordingly.

Wouldn't that blast away any stack changes made by the enclave?