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Subject: Re: [PATCH v34 11/24] x86/sgx: Add SGX enclave driver
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 06:01:51AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Intel Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a set of CPU instructions that
> can be used by applications to set aside private regions of code and
> data. The code outside the SGX hosted software entity is disallowed to

s/disallowed to/prevented from/

> access the memory inside the enclave enforced by the CPU. We call these

s/enforced//

> entities enclaves.
> 
> Add a driver that provides an ioctl API to construct and run enclaves.
> Enclaves are constructed from pages residing in reserved physical memory
> areas. The contents of these pages can only be accessed when they are
> mapped as part of an enclave, by a hardware thread running inside the
> enclave.
> 
> The starting state of an enclave consists of a fixed measured set of
> pages that are copied to the EPC during the construction process by
> using ENCLS leaf functions and Software Enclave Control Structure (SECS)
> that defines the enclave properties.
> 
> Enclaves are constructed by using ENCLS leaf functions ECREATE, EADD and
> EINIT. ECREATE initializes SECS, EADD copies pages from system memory to
> the EPC and EINIT checks a given signed measurement and moves the enclave
> into a state ready for execution.

What's a leaf function?  Is it like a CPU instruction?

> The mmap() permissions are capped by the contained enclave page
> permissions. The mapped areas must also be opaque, i.e. each page address
> must contain a page. This logic is implemented in sgx_encl_may_map().

do you mean "populated" instead of "opaque"?

> +	atomic_set(&encl->flags, 0);
> +	kref_init(&encl->refcount);
> +	INIT_RADIX_TREE(&encl->page_tree, GFP_KERNEL);

Why are you using a radix tree instead of an xarray?

> +int sgx_encl_may_map(struct sgx_encl *encl, unsigned long start,
> +		     unsigned long end, unsigned long vm_prot_bits)
> +{
> +	unsigned long idx, idx_start, idx_end;
> +	struct sgx_encl_page *page;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Disallow RIE tasks as their VMA permissions might conflict with the
> +	 * enclave page permissions.
> +	 */
> +	if (!!(current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC))
> +		return -EACCES;
> +
> +	idx_start = PFN_DOWN(start);
> +	idx_end = PFN_DOWN(end - 1);
> +
> +	for (idx = idx_start; idx <= idx_end; ++idx) {
> +		mutex_lock(&encl->lock);
> +		page = radix_tree_lookup(&encl->page_tree, idx);
> +		mutex_unlock(&encl->lock);
> +
> +		if (!page || (~page->vm_max_prot_bits & vm_prot_bits))
> +			return -EACCES;

You should really use an iterator here instead of repeated lookups.
xas_for_each() will probably be what you want.