Re: [RFC PATCH 3/9] x86/sgx: Allow userspace to add multiple pages in single ioctl()

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Mon Jun 03 2019 - 18:06:13 EST


On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 01:08:04PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 11:26:09PM -0700, Xing, Cedric wrote:
> > > From: Christopherson, Sean J
> > > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 4:32 PM
> > >
> > > +/**
> > > + * sgx_ioc_enclave_add_pages - handler for %SGX_IOC_ENCLAVE_ADD_PAGES
> > > + *
> > > + * @filep: open file to /dev/sgx
> > > + * @cmd: the command value
> > > + * @arg: pointer to an &sgx_enclave_add_page instance
> > > + *
> > > + * Add a range of pages to an uninitialized enclave (EADD), and
> > > +optionally
> > > + * extend the enclave's measurement with the contents of the page (EEXTEND).
> > > + * The range of pages must be virtually contiguous. The SECINFO and
> > > + * measurement maskare applied to all pages, i.e. pages with different
> > > + * properties must be added in separate calls.
> > > + *
> > > + * EADD and EEXTEND are done asynchronously via worker threads. A
> > > +successful
> > > + * sgx_ioc_enclave_add_page() only indicates the pages have been added
> > > +to the
> > > + * work queue, it does not guarantee adding the pages to the enclave
> > > +will
> > > + * succeed.
> > > + *
> > > + * Return:
> > > + * 0 on success,
> > > + * -errno otherwise
> > > + */
> > > +static long sgx_ioc_enclave_add_pages(struct file *filep, unsigned int cmd,
> > > + unsigned long arg)
> > > +{
> > > + struct sgx_enclave_add_pages *addp = (void *)arg;
> > > + struct sgx_encl *encl = filep->private_data;
> > > + struct sgx_secinfo secinfo;
> > > + unsigned int i;
> > > + int ret;
> > > +
> > > + if (copy_from_user(&secinfo, (void __user *)addp->secinfo,
> > > + sizeof(secinfo)))
> > > + return -EFAULT;
> > > +
> > > + for (i = 0, ret = 0; i < addp->nr_pages && !ret; i++) {
> > > + if (signal_pending(current))
> > > + return -ERESTARTSYS;
> >
> > If interrupted, how would user mode code know how many pages have been EADD'ed?
>
> Hmm, updating nr_pages would be fairly simple and shouldn't confuse
> userspace, e.g. as opposed to overloading the return value.

Or maybe update @addr and @src as well? That would allow userspace to
re-invoke the ioctl() without having to modify the struct.