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SubjectRe: [PATCH 05/25] x86/sgx: Introduce runtime protection bits
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On 12/1/21 11:23, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Enclave creators declare their paging permission intent at the time
> the pages are added to the enclave. These paging permissions are
> vetted when pages are added to the enclave and stashed off
> (in sgx_encl_page->vm_max_prot_bits) for later comparison with
> enclave PTEs.
>

I'm a bit confused here. ENCLU[EMODPE] allows the enclave to change the
EPCM permission bits however it likes with no oversight from the kernel.
So we end up with a whole bunch of permission masks:

The PTE: controlled by complex kernel policy

The VMA: with your series, this is entirely controlled by userspace. I
think I'm fine with that.

vm_max_prot_bits: populated from secinfo at setup time, unless I missed
something that changes it later. Maybe I'm confused or missed something
in one of the patches,

vm_run_prot_bits: populated from some combination of ioctls. I'm
entirely lost as to what this is for.

EPCM bits: controlled by the guest. basically useless for any host
purpose on SGX2 hardware (with or without kernel support -- the enclave
can do ENCLU[EMODPE] whether we like it or not, even on old kernels)

So I guess I don't understand the purpose of this patch or of the rules
in the later patches, and I feel like this is getting more complicated
than makes sense.


Could we perhaps make vm_max_prot_bits dynamic or at least controllable
in some useful way? My initial proposal (years ago) was for
vm_max_prot_bits to be *separately* configured at initial load time
instead of being inferred from secinfo with the intent being that the
user untrusted runtime would set it appropriately. I have no problem
with allowing runtime changes as long as the security policy makes sense
and it's kept consistent with PTEs.

Also, I think we need a changelog message or, even better, actual docs
in kernel, explaining the actual final set of rules and invariants for
all these masks.

--Andy

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