Re: [PATCH v17 18/23] platform/x86: Intel SGX driver
From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Mon Dec 17 2018 - 13:23:29 EST
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:09:57AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> No, EREMOVE should never fail if the enclave is being released, i.e. all
> references to the enclave are gone. And failure during sgx_encl_release()
> means we leaked an EPC page, which warrants a WARN.
Right that what I was suspecting as swapper should hold a ref to the
enclave while it is working on it. It is a programming error when this
happens.
Maybe change the boolean parameter to flags parameter have a flag to
use sgx_free_page()?
> That makes sense.
What do you think of Dave's proposal?
/Jarkko