Re: [PATCH v8 1/5] x86/tdx: Add TDX Guest attestation interface driver

Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-07-18T22:52:07Z

Hi Dave,

On 7/6/22 3:27 PM, Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy wrote:
>
>
> On 7/5/22 3:31 PM, Kai Huang wrote:
>> On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 14:21 -0700, Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy wrote:
>>> SGX is a related feature. It also uses IOCTL approach for enclave provisioning.
>>>
>>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c
>>
>> SGX isn't a good example here. The IOCTLs are used to create enclaves, but not
>> for attestation. SGX attestation relies on enclave itself to get/verify the
>> report, etc, so has no interaction with the kernel.
>
> If you are looking for an attestation specific example, you can only check the AMD
> code.
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/patch/20220307213356.2797205-44-brijesh.singh@amd.com/
>
> Also, sev_get_attestation_report() in arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c also implements attestation
> IOCTL specific to KVM.
>

As mentioned above, AMD also uses IOCTL model for attestation use case. So you agree
with us using similar approach here? Please let me know your comments.

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer