Re: [PATCH v32 00/21] Intel SGX foundations

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 01:59:03PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 10:51:57AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > v29:
> > * The selftest has been moved to selftests/sgx. Because SGX is an execution
> >   environment of its own, it really isn't a great fit with more "standard"
> >   x86 tests.
> > 
> >   The RSA key is now generated on fly and the whole signing process has
> >   been made as part of the enclave loader instead of signing the enclave
> >   during the compilation time.
> > 
> >   Finally, the enclave loader loads now the test enclave directly from its
> >   ELF file, which means that ELF file does not need to be coverted as raw
> >   binary during the build process.
> 
> Something in the above rework broke the selftest.  I'm getting intermittent
> EINIT failures with SGX_INVALID_SIGNATURE.  I'm guessing it's related to
> the dynamic RSA key generation, e.g. only ~15% of runs fail.  Verified that
> v29 selftest fails and v28 passes.  My internal tests also pass, i.e. it's
> all but guaranteed to be a selftest issue, not a kernel issue.
> 
> Jarkko, I don't have bandwidth to dig into this right now, hopefully this
> reproduces in your environment.  Let me know if that's not the case.

I haven't experienced but I'll try to stress test it.

Just to know how complex test should reproduce your issue, can you
reproduce the issue by running the selftest sequentially in a loop or
do I need to do something more complex than that?

/Jarkko