Re: [PATCH v13 10/13] x86/sgx: Add sgx_einit() for initializing enclaves

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Sep 04 2018 - 12:05:25 EST


On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:58 PM Jarkko Sakkinen
<jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add a function to perform ENCLS(EINIT), which initializes an enclave,
> which can be used by a driver for running enclaves and VMMs.
>
> Writing the LE hash MSRs is extraordinarily expensive, e.g. 3-4x slower
> than normal MSRs, so we use a per-cpu cache to track the last known value
> of the MSRs to avoid unnecessarily writing the MSRs with the current value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> +int sgx_einit(struct sgx_sigstruct *sigstruct, struct sgx_einittoken *token,
> + struct sgx_epc_page *secs_page, u64 lepubkeyhash[4]);

This [4] doesn't make any sense in a C when used in function call
parameter list.

> +/* The cache for the last known values of IA32_SGXLEPUBKEYHASHx MSRs for each
> + * CPU. The entries are initialized when they are first used by sgx_einit().
> + */
> +struct sgx_lepubkeyhash {
> + u64 msrs[4];

4 is MAGIC.

> + u64 pm_cnt;
> +};

> +int sgx_einit(struct sgx_sigstruct *sigstruct, struct sgx_einittoken *token,
> + struct sgx_epc_page *secs_page, u64 lepubkeyhash[4])

Same two comments about [4].

> +{

> + cache = per_cpu(sgx_lepubkeyhash_cache, smp_processor_id());

> + if (!cache) {

How often it's being expected to happen?

> + cache = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sgx_lepubkeyhash), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!cache)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }

> + for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {

Same MAGIC?

> + }

> +}

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko