Re: [PATCH 3/6] intel_sgx: driver for Intel Secure Guard eXtensions

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Mon Apr 25 2016 - 15:04:55 EST


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:55:36AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 08:34:10PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Intel(R) 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 enclave is disallowed to access the memory inside the
> > enclave by the CPU access control.
> >
> > Intel SGX driver provides a ioctl interface for loading and initializing
> > enclaves and a pager in order to support oversubscription.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/include/asm/sgx.h | 4 +-
> > drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 +
> > drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/staging/intel_sgx/Kconfig | 13 +
> > drivers/staging/intel_sgx/Makefile | 12 +
> > drivers/staging/intel_sgx/isgx.h | 238 +++++++
> > drivers/staging/intel_sgx/isgx_compat_ioctl.c | 179 +++++
>
> No "new" kernel code should ever need compat_ioctl support, please just
> create your structures to not require this at all, it isn't that
> difficult.

I'll rework this. Thanks for the feedback.

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

/Jarkko