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

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 09:15 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 04:16:37AM -0500, Dr. Greg wrote:
> > What we would recommend at this point is that you and Jarkko do the
> > Linux community and beyond a favor and wire up a simple kernel
> > command-line parameter that controls the ability of the driver to be
> > used, ie. enables/disables access to /dev/sgx/enclave.
> 
> I'm not opposed to adding a kernel param to disable SGX.  At one point
> there was a proposal to extend clearcpuid to allow disabling multiple
> feature bits, but it looks like that went the way of the dodo.
> 
> Note, such a param would disable SGX entirely, e.g. clear the feature bit
> in /proc/cpuinfo and prevent any in-kernel SGX code from running.

Greg, you are free to submit a patch for review that adds any possible
kernel command line parameter SGX and beyond. SGX support does not "wire
up" anything that would prevent reviewing such patches.

/Jarkko