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The whole point of SGX is to create a hardware protected place to do “stuff”. But, before someone is willing to hand over the keys to the castle , an enclave must often prove that it is running on an SGX-protected processor. Provisioning enclaves play a key role in providing proof. There are actually three different enclaves in play in order to make this happen: 1. The application enclave. The familiar one we know and love that runs the actual code that’s doing real work. There can be many of these on a single system, or even in a single application. 2. The quoting enclave (QE). The QE is mentioned in lots of silly whitepapers, but, for the purposes of kernel enabling, just pretend they do not exist. 3. The provisioning enclave. There is typically only one of these enclaves per system. Provisioning enclaves have access to a special hardware key. They can use this key to help to generate certificates which serve as proof that enclaves are running on trusted SGX hardware. These certificates can be passed around without revealing the special key. Any user who can create a provisioning enclave can access the processor-unique Provisioning Certificate Key which has privacy and fingerprinting implications. Even if a user is permitted to create normal application enclaves (via /dev/sgx_enclave), they should not be able to create provisioning enclaves. That means a separate permissions scheme is needed to control provisioning enclave privileges. Implement a separate device file (/dev/sgx_provision) which allows creating provisioning enclaves. This device will typically have more strict permissions than the plain enclave device. The actual device “driver” is an empty stub. Open file descriptors for this device will represent a token which allows provisioning enclave duty. This file descriptor can be passed around and ultimately given as an argument to the /dev/sgx_enclave driver ioctl(). [ bp: Touchups. ] Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201112220135.165028-16-jarkko@kernel.org |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.