Re: [PATCH v32 12/21] x86/sgx: Add provisioning

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Tue Jun 16 2020 - 15:55:14 EST


On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 09:09:49PM +0100, Darren Kenny wrote:
> TYPO: s/devilering/delivering/?

I decided to rewrite the whole thing:

x86/sgx: Allow a limited use of ATTRIBUTE.PROVISIONKEY for attestation

Provisioning Certification Enclave (PCE), the root of trust for other
enclaves, generates a signing key from a fused key called Provisioning
Certification Key. PCE can then use this key to certify an attestation key
of a QE, e.g. we get the chain of trust down to the hardware if the Intel
signed PCE is used.

To use the needed keys, ATTRIBUTE.PROVISIONKEY is required but should be
only allowed for those who actually need it so that only the trusted
parties can certify QE's.

Obviously the attestation service should know the public key of the used
PCE and that way detect illegit attestation, but whitelisting the legit
users still adds an additional layer of defence.

Add new device file called /dev/sgx/provision. The sole purpose of this
file is to provide file descriptors that act as privilege tokens to allow
to build enclaves with ATTRIBUTE.PROVISIONKEY set. A new ioctl called
SGX_IOC_ENCLAVE_SET_ATTRIBUTE is used to assign this token to an enclave.

> > + * sgx_ioc_enclave_set_attribute - handler for %SGX_IOC_ENCLAVE_SET_ATTRIBUTE
> > + * @filep: open file to /dev/sgx
> > + * @arg: userspace pointer to a struct sgx_enclave_set_attribute instance
> > + *
> > + * Mark the enclave as being allowed to access a restricted attribute bit.
> > + * The requested attribute is specified via the attribute_fd field in the
> > + * provided struct sgx_enclave_set_attribute. The attribute_fd must be a
> > + * handle to an SGX attribute file, e.g. ?/dev/sgx/provision".
>
> Maybe this should be simply a double-quote rather than the Unicode left
> quote?

Not sure how that got there but it is a mistake.

> Thanks,
>
> Darren.

Thanks for the remarks.

/Jarkko