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

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 04:20:22PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 08:51:40AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Except that mmap() is more or less required to guarantee that ELRANGE
> > established by ECREATE is available.  And we want to disallow mmap() as
> > soon as the first EADD is done so that userspace can't remap the enclave's
> > VMAs via munmap()->mmap() and gain execute permissions to pages that were
> > EADD'd as NX.
> 
> We don't want to guarantee such thing and it is not guaranteed. It does
> not fit at all to the multi process work done. Enclaves are detached
> from any particular process addresse spaces. It is responsibility of
> process to open windows to them.
> 
> That would be completely against work that we've done lately.

Example use case: you have a process that just constructs an enclave
and sends it to another process or processes for use. The constructor
process could have basically anything on that range. This was the key
goal of the fd based enclave work.

/Jarkko