Re: [PATCH 1/3] intel_sgx: do not use BUG() in sgx_free_page()

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Sun Jan 29 2017 - 10:13:35 EST


On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 05:45:03PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen
> <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > EREMOVE fails on non-EPC page or when a SECS page with children is to be
> > removed. These do not happen if the driver is working correctly. Log the
> > error but do not crash the driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/platform/x86/intel_sgx_page_cache.c | 6 ++----
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_sgx_page_cache.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_sgx_page_cache.c
> > index d073057..7f73ac7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_sgx_page_cache.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_sgx_page_cache.c
> > @@ -551,10 +551,8 @@ void sgx_free_page(struct sgx_epc_page *entry,
> > ret = __eremove(epc);
> > sgx_put_epc_page(epc);
> >
> > - if (ret) {
> > - pr_err("EREMOVE returned %d\n", ret);
> > - BUG();
> > - }
> > + if (ret)
> > + sgx_err(encl, "EREMOVE returned %d\n", ret);
>
> Do you have something like critical level? For me seems reasonable to
> increase the level of message if BUG() was somehow related to actual
> situation.

Hmm... I think that would make sense. This could only happen when
the driver implementation is working incorrectly.

/Jarkko