SGX vs LSM (Re: [PATCH v20 00/28] Intel SGX1 support)

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:27:04AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Hi, LSM and SELinux people-
> 
> We're trying to figure out how SGX fits in with LSMs.  For background,
> an SGX library is functionally a bit like a DSO, except that it's
> nominally resistant to attack from outside and the process of loading
> it is complicated.  To load an enclave, a program can open
> /dev/sgx/enclave, do some ioctls to load the code and data segments
> into the enclave, call a special ioctl to "initialize" the enclave,
> and then call into the enclave (using special CPU instructions).
> 
> One nastiness is that there is not actually a universally agreed upon,
> documented file format for enclaves.  Windows has an undocumented
> format, and there are probably a few others out there.  No one really
> wants to teach the kernel to parse enclave files.
> 
> There are two issues with how this interacts with LSMs:
> 
> 1) LSMs might want to be able to whitelist, blacklist, or otherwise
> restrict what enclaves can run at all.  The current proposal that
> everyone seems to dislike the least is to have a .sigstruct file on
> disk that contains a hash and signature of the enclave in a
> CPU-defined format.  To initialize an enclave, a program will pass an
> fd to this file, and a new LSM hook can be called to allow or disallow
> the operation.  In a SELinux context, the idea is that policy could
> require the .sigstruct file to be labeled with a type like
> sgx_sigstruct_t, and only enclaves that have a matching .sigstruct
> with such a label could run.

Similarly if we could take data for the enclave from fd and enforce
it with sgx_enclave_t label.

> Here's a very vague proposal that's kind of like what I've been
> thinking over the past few days.  The SGX inode could track, for each
> page, a "safe-to-execute" bit.  When you first open /dev/sgx/enclave,
> you get a blank enclave and all pages are safe-to-execute.  When you
> do the ioctl to load context (which could be code, data, or anything
> else), the kernel will check whether the *source* VMA is executable
> and, if not, mark the page of the enclave being loaded as unsafe.
> Once the enclave is initialized, the driver will clear the
> safe-to-execute bit for any page that is successfully mapped writably.

With the fd based model for source I'd mark SECINFO.W pages as unsafe
to execute and then check unsafe bit before applying lets say EMODT
or EMODPR.

There is a problem here though. Usually the enclave itself is just a
loader that then loads the application from outside source and creates
the executable pages from the content.

A great example of this is Graphene that bootstraps unmodified Linux
applications to an enclave:

https://github.com/oscarlab/graphene

/Jarkko