Re: [PATCH v29 00/20] Intel SGX foundations

[Seth Moore]

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:08 PM Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Adding some Google folks to the party.

Thanks, Sean.

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:52:56AM +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.
> >
> > There is a new hardware unit in the processor called Memory Encryption
> > Engine (MEE) starting from the Skylake microacrhitecture. BIOS can define
> > one or many MEE regions that can hold enclave data by configuring them with
> > PRMRR registers.
> >
> > The MEE automatically encrypts the data leaving the processor package to
> > the MEE regions. The data is encrypted using a random key whose life-time
> > is exactly one power cycle.
> >
> > The current implementation requires that the firmware sets
> > IA32_SGXLEPUBKEYHASH* MSRs as writable so that ultimately the kernel can
> > decide what enclaves it wants run. The implementation does not create
> > any bottlenecks to support read-only MSRs later on.
> >
> > You can tell if your CPU supports SGX by looking into /proc/cpuinfo:
> >
> >       cat /proc/cpuinfo  | grep sgx

We applied the v29 patches to Linux 5.6.0, then tested on Xeon(R) E-2186G
with Asylo (http://asylo.dev).

Looks good. All Asylo tests pass.

Tested-by: Seth Moore <sethmo@xxxxxxxxxx>