Re: [PATCH v5 08/11] intel_sgx: in-kernel launch enclave

Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-20T23:48:32Z

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:43:22PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:50:06PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 09:45:25PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > > > TinyCrypt (https://github.com/01org/tinycrypt) is used as AES
> > > > > implementation, which is not timing resistant. Eventually this needs to
> > > > > be replaced with AES-NI based implementation that could be either
> > > >
> > > > > - re-use existing AES-NI code in the kernel
> > > >
> > > > This. That is an absolute must. We're not going to merge custom AES
> > > > implementations.
> > >
> > > I'll post v6 update without update to this in order to get otherwise
> > > improved version out and work on it for v7.
> > >
> > > My initial idea to sort this out would be to try to compile
> > >
> > > arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S
> > >
> > > as part of the enclave binary and use it to run AES-256.
> >
> > No. The kernel has a crypto API.
>
> But you cannot call it from inside an enclave. A syscall will exit the
> enclave. The launch enclave requires AES-256 to be executed inside the
> enclave.

Color me confused.

The launch enclave is part of the kernel, at least that's what the subject
line claims. So why and how would it do a syscall? The kernel has it's
internal crypto API.

Thanks,

tglx