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SubjectRe: [PATCH 10/25] x86/sgx: Support enclave page permission changes
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On 12/4/21 3:08 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>> Enclave page permission changes need to be approached with care and
>> for this reason this initial support is to allow enclave page
>> permission changes _only_ if the new permissions are the same or
>> more restrictive that the permissions originally vetted at the time the
>> pages were added to the enclave. Support for extending enclave page
>> permissions beyond what was originally vetted is deferred.
> This paragraph is out-of-scope for a commit message. You could have
> this in the cover letter but not here. I would just remove it.

This does convey valuable information, though. It tells the reader that
this is a sub-optimal implementation. It also acknowledges that there
is further work to do. Maybe saying that it is "deferred" is not quite
the verbiage I would use, but the concept is fine.

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