Re: [intel-sgx-kernel-dev] [PATCH v11 13/13] intel_sgx: in-kernel launch enclave

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Tue Jun 19 2018 - 11:06:02 EST


On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:50:14AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:32 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
> <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The Launch Enclave (LE) generates cryptographic launch tokens for user
> > enclaves. A launch token is used by EINIT to check whether the enclave
> > is authorized to launch or not. By having its own launch enclave, Linux
> > has full control of the enclave launch process.
> >
> > LE is wrapped into a user space proxy program that reads enclave
> > signatures outputs launch tokens. The kernel-side glue code is
> > implemented by using the user space helper framework. The IPC between
> > the LE proxy program and kernel is handled with an anonymous inode.
> >
> > The commit also adds enclave signing tool that is used by kbuild to
> > measure and sign the launch enclave. CONFIG_INTEL_SGX_SIGNING_KEY points
> > to a PEM-file for the 3072-bit RSA key that is used as the LE public key
> > pair. The default location is:
>
> It might be nice to use the infrastructure that Alexei added for
> bpfilter (the umh_blob stuff) here, which is slated for merging in
> this merge window.
>
> --Andy

Thanks, not familiar with this work. Is there any documentation for
it available?

/Jarkko