[PATCH v33 11/21] x86/sgx: Linux Enclave Driver

Tue Oct 27 10:05:15 UTC 2020

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 02:26:13PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> What were you concerned about here?  Was it how long the syscall could
> take, or that one user could exhaust all the enclave memory in one call?

More the latter. And generally, to have a sanity-check on all requests
coming from luserspace.

> Some later versions of this patch have a 1MB limit per to reduce how
> long each SGX_IOC_ENCLAVE_ADD_PAGES call spends in the kernel.  But, I'm
> not _sure_ that's what you were intending.

Yeah, that was not my main goal - rather to sanity-check user input and
impose a sane limit.

Thx.

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