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diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/sgx.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/sgx.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d90796adc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/sgx.rst @@ -0,0 +1,302 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=============================== +Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) +=============================== + +Overview +======== + +Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) hardware enables for user space applications +to set aside private memory regions of code and data: + +* Privileged (ring-0) ENCLS functions orchestrate the construction of the + regions. +* Unprivileged (ring-3) ENCLU functions allow an application to enter and + execute inside the regions. + +These memory regions are called enclaves. An enclave can be only entered at a +fixed set of entry points. Each entry point can hold a single hardware thread +at a time. While the enclave is loaded from a regular binary file by using +ENCLS functions, only the threads inside the enclave can access its memory. The +region is denied from outside access by the CPU, and encrypted before it leaves +from LLC. + +The support can be determined by + + ``grep sgx /proc/cpuinfo`` + +SGX must both be supported in the processor and enabled by the BIOS. If SGX +appears to be unsupported on a system which has hardware support, ensure +support is enabled in the BIOS. If a BIOS presents a choice between "Enabled" +and "Software Enabled" modes for SGX, choose "Enabled". + +Enclave Page Cache +================== + +SGX utilizes an *Enclave Page Cache (EPC)* to store pages that are associated +with an enclave. It is contained in a BIOS-reserved region of physical memory. +Unlike pages used for regular memory, pages can only be accessed from outside of +the enclave during enclave construction with special, limited SGX instructions. + +Only a CPU executing inside an enclave can directly access enclave memory. +However, a CPU executing inside an enclave may access normal memory outside the +enclave. + +The kernel manages enclave memory similar to how it treats device memory. + +Enclave Page Types +------------------ + +**SGX Enclave Control Structure (SECS)** + Enclave's address range, attributes and other global data are defined + by this structure. + +**Regular (REG)** + Regular EPC pages contain the code and data of an enclave. + +**Thread Control Structure (TCS)** + Thread Control Structure pages define the entry points to an enclave and + track the execution state of an enclave thread. + +**Version Array (VA)** + Version Array pages contain 512 slots, each of which can contain a version + number for a page evicted from the EPC. + +Enclave Page Cache Map +---------------------- + +The processor tracks EPC pages in a hardware metadata structure called the +*Enclave Page Cache Map (EPCM)*. The EPCM contains an entry for each EPC page +which describes the owning enclave, access rights and page type among the other +things. + +EPCM permissions are separate from the normal page tables. This prevents the +kernel from, for instance, allowing writes to data which an enclave wishes to +remain read-only. EPCM permissions may only impose additional restrictions on +top of normal x86 page permissions. + +For all intents and purposes, the SGX architecture allows the processor to +invalidate all EPCM entries at will. This requires that software be prepared to +handle an EPCM fault at any time. In practice, this can happen on events like +power transitions when the ephemeral key that encrypts enclave memory is lost. + +Application interface +===================== + +Enclave build functions +----------------------- + +In addition to the traditional compiler and linker build process, SGX has a +separate enclave “build” process. Enclaves must be built before they can be +executed (entered). The first step in building an enclave is opening the +**/dev/sgx_enclave** device. Since enclave memory is protected from direct +access, special privileged instructions are then used to copy data into enclave +pages and establish enclave page permissions. + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c + :functions: sgx_ioc_enclave_create + sgx_ioc_enclave_add_pages + sgx_ioc_enclave_init + sgx_ioc_enclave_provision + +Enclave runtime management +-------------------------- + +Systems supporting SGX2 additionally support changes to initialized +enclaves: modifying enclave page permissions and type, and dynamically +adding and removing of enclave pages. When an enclave accesses an address +within its address range that does not have a backing page then a new +regular page will be dynamically added to the enclave. The enclave is +still required to run EACCEPT on the new page before it can be used. + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c + :functions: sgx_ioc_enclave_restrict_permissions + sgx_ioc_enclave_modify_types + sgx_ioc_enclave_remove_pages + +Enclave vDSO +------------ + +Entering an enclave can only be done through SGX-specific EENTER and ERESUME +functions, and is a non-trivial process. Because of the complexity of +transitioning to and from an enclave, enclaves typically utilize a library to +handle the actual transitions. This is roughly analogous to how glibc +implementations are used by most applications to wrap system calls. + +Another crucial characteristic of enclaves is that they can generate exceptions +as part of their normal operation that need to be handled in the enclave or are +unique to SGX. + +Instead of the traditional signal mechanism to handle these exceptions, SGX +can leverage special exception fixup provided by the vDSO. The kernel-provided +vDSO function wraps low-level transitions to/from the enclave like EENTER and +ERESUME. The vDSO function intercepts exceptions that would otherwise generate +a signal and return the fault information directly to its caller. This avoids +the need to juggle signal handlers. + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sgx.h + :functions: vdso_sgx_enter_enclave_t + +ksgxd +===== + +SGX support includes a kernel thread called *ksgxd*. + +EPC sanitization +---------------- + +ksgxd is started when SGX initializes. Enclave memory is typically ready +for use when the processor powers on or resets. However, if SGX has been in +use since the reset, enclave pages may be in an inconsistent state. This might +occur after a crash and kexec() cycle, for instance. At boot, ksgxd +reinitializes all enclave pages so that they can be allocated and re-used. + +The sanitization is done by going through EPC address space and applying the +EREMOVE function to each physical page. Some enclave pages like SECS pages have +hardware dependencies on other pages which prevents EREMOVE from functioning. +Executing two EREMOVE passes removes the dependencies. + +Page reclaimer +-------------- + +Similar to the core kswapd, ksgxd, is responsible for managing the +overcommitment of enclave memory. If the system runs out of enclave memory, +*ksgxd* “swaps” enclave memory to normal memory. + +Launch Control +============== + +SGX provides a launch control mechanism. After all enclave pages have been +copied, kernel executes EINIT function, which initializes the enclave. Only after +this the CPU can execute inside the enclave. + +EINIT function takes an RSA-3072 signature of the enclave measurement. The function +checks that the measurement is correct and signature is signed with the key +hashed to the four **IA32_SGXLEPUBKEYHASH{0, 1, 2, 3}** MSRs representing the +SHA256 of a public key. + +Those MSRs can be configured by the BIOS to be either readable or writable. +Linux supports only writable configuration in order to give full control to the +kernel on launch control policy. Before calling EINIT function, the driver sets +the MSRs to match the enclave's signing key. + +Encryption engines +================== + +In order to conceal the enclave data while it is out of the CPU package, the +memory controller has an encryption engine to transparently encrypt and decrypt +enclave memory. + +In CPUs prior to Ice Lake, the Memory Encryption Engine (MEE) is used to +encrypt pages leaving the CPU caches. MEE uses a n-ary Merkle tree with root in +SRAM to maintain integrity of the encrypted data. This provides integrity and +anti-replay protection but does not scale to large memory sizes because the time +required to update the Merkle tree grows logarithmically in relation to the +memory size. + +CPUs starting from Icelake use Total Memory Encryption (TME) in the place of +MEE. TME-based SGX implementations do not have an integrity Merkle tree, which +means integrity and replay-attacks are not mitigated. B, it includes +additional changes to prevent cipher text from being returned and SW memory +aliases from being created. + +DMA to enclave memory is blocked by range registers on both MEE and TME systems +(SDM section 41.10). + +Usage Models +============ + +Shared Library +-------------- + +Sensitive data and the code that acts on it is partitioned from the application +into a separate library. The library is then linked as a DSO which can be loaded +into an enclave. The application can then make individual function calls into +the enclave through special SGX instructions. A run-time within the enclave is +configured to marshal function parameters into and out of the enclave and to +call the correct library function. + +Application Container +--------------------- + +An application may be loaded into a container enclave which is specially +configured with a library OS and run-time which permits the application to run. +The enclave run-time and library OS work together to execute the application +when a thread enters the enclave. + +Impact of Potential Kernel SGX Bugs +=================================== + +EPC leaks +--------- + +When EPC page leaks happen, a WARNING like this is shown in dmesg: + +"EREMOVE returned ... and an EPC page was leaked. SGX may become unusable..." + +This is effectively a kernel use-after-free of an EPC page, and due +to the way SGX works, the bug is detected at freeing. Rather than +adding the page back to the pool of available EPC pages, the kernel +intentionally leaks the page to avoid additional errors in the future. + +When this happens, the kernel will likely soon leak more EPC pages, and +SGX will likely become unusable because the memory available to SGX is +limited. However, while this may be fatal to SGX, the rest of the kernel +is unlikely to be impacted and should continue to work. + +As a result, when this happens, user should stop running any new +SGX workloads, (or just any new workloads), and migrate all valuable +workloads. Although a machine reboot can recover all EPC memory, the bug +should be reported to Linux developers. + + +Virtual EPC +=========== + +The implementation has also a virtual EPC driver to support SGX enclaves +in guests. Unlike the SGX driver, an EPC page allocated by the virtual +EPC driver doesn't have a specific enclave associated with it. This is +because KVM doesn't track how a guest uses EPC pages. + +As a result, the SGX core page reclaimer doesn't support reclaiming EPC +pages allocated to KVM guests through the virtual EPC driver. If the +user wants to deploy SGX applications both on the host and in guests +on the same machine, the user should reserve enough EPC (by taking out +total virtual EPC size of all SGX VMs from the physical EPC size) for +host SGX applications so they can run with acceptable performance. + +Architectural behavior is to restore all EPC pages to an uninitialized +state also after a guest reboot. Because this state can be reached only +through the privileged ``ENCLS[EREMOVE]`` instruction, ``/dev/sgx_vepc`` +provides the ``SGX_IOC_VEPC_REMOVE_ALL`` ioctl to execute the instruction +on all pages in the virtual EPC. + +``EREMOVE`` can fail for three reasons. Userspace must pay attention +to expected failures and handle them as follows: + +1. Page removal will always fail when any thread is running in the + enclave to which the page belongs. In this case the ioctl will + return ``EBUSY`` independent of whether it has successfully removed + some pages; userspace can avoid these failures by preventing execution + of any vcpu which maps the virtual EPC. + +2. Page removal will cause a general protection fault if two calls to + ``EREMOVE`` happen concurrently for pages that refer to the same + "SECS" metadata pages. This can happen if there are concurrent + invocations to ``SGX_IOC_VEPC_REMOVE_ALL``, or if a ``/dev/sgx_vepc`` + file descriptor in the guest is closed at the same time as + ``SGX_IOC_VEPC_REMOVE_ALL``; it will also be reported as ``EBUSY``. + This can be avoided in userspace by serializing calls to the ioctl() + and to close(), but in general it should not be a problem. + +3. Finally, page removal will fail for SECS metadata pages which still + have child pages. Child pages can be removed by executing + ``SGX_IOC_VEPC_REMOVE_ALL`` on all ``/dev/sgx_vepc`` file descriptors + mapped into the guest. This means that the ioctl() must be called + twice: an initial set of calls to remove child pages and a subsequent + set of calls to remove SECS pages. The second set of calls is only + required for those mappings that returned a nonzero value from the + first call. It indicates a bug in the kernel or the userspace client + if any of the second round of ``SGX_IOC_VEPC_REMOVE_ALL`` calls has + a return code other than 0. |