Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86: sgx_vepc: extract sgx_vepc_remove_page

[Dave Hansen]

On 10/12/21 3:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> For bare-metal SGX on real hardware, the hardware provides guarantees
> SGX state at reboot.  For instance, all pages start out uninitialized.
> The vepc driver provides a similar guarantee today for freshly-opened
> vepc instances, but guests such as Windows expect all pages to be in
> uninitialized state on startup, including after every guest reboot.
> 
> One way to do this is to simply close and reopen the /dev/sgx_vepc file
> descriptor and re-mmap the virtual EPC.  However, this is problematic
> because it prevents sandboxing the userspace (for example forbidding
> open() after the guest starts; this is doable with heavy use of SCM_RIGHTS
> file descriptor passing).
> 
> In order to implement this, we will need a ioctl that performs
> EREMOVE on all pages mapped by a /dev/sgx_vepc file descriptor:
> other possibilities, such as closing and reopening the device,
> are racy.
> 
> Start the implementation by creating a separate function with just
> the __eremove wrapper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>