Re: RFC: userspace exception fixups

[Sean Christopherson]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 05:17:34PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 05:17:32AM +0000, Jethro Beekman wrote:
> > Jarkko, can you please explain you solution in detail? The CPU receives an
> > exception. This will be handled by the kernel exception handler. What
> > information does the kernel exception handler use to determine whether to
> > deliver the exception as a regular signal to the process, or whether to set
> > the special registers values for userspace and just continue executing the
> > process manually?
> 
> Now we throw SIGSEGV when PF_SGX set, right? In my solution that would
> be turned just doing iret to AEP with the extra that three registers get
> exception data (type, reason, addr). No decoding or RIP adjusting
> involved.
> 
> That would mean that you would actually have to implement AEP handler
> than just have enclu there.
> 
> I've also proposed that perhaps for SGX also #UD should be propagated
> this way because for some instructions you need outside help to emulate
> "non-enclave" environment.

And how would you determine the #UD is related to SGX?  Hardware doesn't
provide any indication that a #UD (or any other fault) is related to SGX
or occurred in an enclave.  The only fault that is special-cased in a
non-virtualized environment is #PF signaled by the EPCM, which gets the
PF_SGX bit set in the error code.

> That is all I have drafted together so far. I'll try to finish v18 this
> week with other stuff and refine further next week (unless someone gives
> obvious reason why this doesn't work, which might well be because I
> haven't went too deep with my analysis yet because of lack of time).
> 
> /Jarkko