On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 04:06:45PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> From: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
> 
> The SGX Enclave Page Cache Map (EPCM) is a hardware-managed table
> that enforces accesses to an enclave's EPC page in addition to the
> software-managed kernel page tables, i.e. the effective permissions
> for an EPC page are a logical AND of the kernel's page tables and
> the corresponding EPCM entry.  The primary purpose of the EPCM is
> to prevent a malcious or compromised kernel from attacking an enclave
> by modifying the enclave's page tables.  The EPCM entires for an
> enclave are populated when the enclave is built and verified, using
> metadata provided by the enclave that is included in the measurement
> used to verify the enclave.
> 
> In normal operation of a properly functioning, non-malicious kernel
> (and enclave), the EPCM permissions will never trigger a fault, i.e.
> the kernel may make the permissions for an EPC page more restrictive,
> e.g. mark it not-present to swap out the EPC page, but the kernel will
> never make its permissions less restrictive.
> 
> But, there is a legitimate scenario in which the kernel's page tables
> can become less restrictive than the EPCM: on current hardware all
> enclaves are destroyed (by hardware) on a transition to S3 or lower
> sleep states, i.e. all EPCM entries are invalid (not-present) after
> the system resumes from its sleep state.
> 
> Unfortunately, on CPUs that support only SGX1, EPCM violations result
> in a #GP.  The upside of the #GP is that no kernel changes are needed
> to deal with the EPCM being blasted away by hardware, e.g. userspace
> gets a SIGSEGV, assumes the EPCM was lost and restarts its enclave
> and everyone is happy.  The downside is that userspace has to assume
> the SIGSEGV was because the EPC was lost (or possibly do some leg work
> to rule out other causes).
> 
> In SGX2, the oddity of delivering a #GP due to what are inherently
> paging related violations is remedied.  CPUs that support SGX2 deliver
> EPCM violations as #PFs with a new SGX error code bit set.  So, now
> that hardware provides us with a way to unequivocally determine that
> a fault was due to a EPCM violation, define a signfo code for SIGSEGV
> so that the information can be passed onto userspace.
> 
> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]>
> ---
>  include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h 
> b/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h
> index 80e2a7227205..fdd898e2325b 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h
> @@ -225,7 +225,11 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
>  #else
>  # define SEGV_PKUERR 4       /* failed protection key checks */
>  #endif
> +#ifdef __x86_64__

Argh, this needs to be "#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)"
otherwise 32-bit builds break on later patches that use SEGV_SGXERR,
e.g. the errors flagged by the 0-DAY bot.

> +#define SEGV_SGXERR  5       /* SGX Enclave Page Cache Map fault */
> +#else
>  #define SEGV_ACCADI  5       /* ADI not enabled for mapped object */
> +#endif
>  #define SEGV_ADIDERR 6       /* Disrupting MCD error */
>  #define SEGV_ADIPERR 7       /* Precise MCD exception */
>  #define NSIGSEGV     7
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

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