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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 18/23] platform/x86: Intel SGX driver
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:23:19 +0200
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:09:57AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> No, EREMOVE should never fail if the enclave is being released, i.e. all
> references to the enclave are gone.  And failure during sgx_encl_release()
> means we leaked an EPC page, which warrants a WARN.

Right that what I was suspecting as swapper should hold a ref to the
enclave while it is working on it. It is a programming error when this
happens.

Maybe change the boolean parameter to flags parameter have a flag to
use sgx_free_page()?

> That makes sense.

What do you think of Dave's proposal?

/Jarkko