Re: [intel-sgx-kernel-dev] [PATCH v5 10/11] intel_sgx: glue code for in-kernel LE

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Wed Nov 15 2017 - 05:10:36 EST


On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:31:15PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:16:43AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > This semaphore approach is broken due to the LE process using an anon inode for
> > /dev/sgx, which results in sgx_release being called without an accompanying call
> > to sgx_open.  This causes deadlocks due to a semaphore underrun.
> >
> > https://lists.01.org/pipermail/intel-sgx-kernel-dev/2017-November/000901.html
>
> Thank you for catching this. I can only say that I forgot to fix it it
> for v5. It will be refined for v6.
>
> /Jarkko

I added a fix to 'le' branch (will be squashed in v6).

/Jarkko