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    x86/sgx/virt: implement SGX_IOC_VEPC_REMOVE ioctl · ae095b16
    Paolo Bonzini authored
    For bare-metal SGX on real hardware, the hardware provides guarantees
    SGX state at reboot.  For instance, all pages start out uninitialized.
    The vepc driver provides a similar guarantee today for freshly-opened
    vepc instances, but guests such as Windows expect all pages to be in
    uninitialized state on startup, including after every guest reboot.
    
    Some userspace implementations of virtual SGX would rather avoid having
    to close and reopen the /dev/sgx_vepc file descriptor and re-mmap the
    virtual EPC.  For example, they could sandbox themselves after the guest
    starts and forbid further calls to open(), in order to mitigate exploits
    from untrusted guests.
    
    Therefore, add a ioctl that does this with EREMOVE.  Userspace can
    invoke the ioctl to bring its vEPC pages back to uninitialized state.
    There is a possibility that some pages fail to be removed if they are
    SECS pages, and the child and SECS pages could be in separate vEPC
    regions.  Therefore, the ioctl returns the number of EREMOVE failures,
    telling userspace to try the ioctl again after it's done with all
    vEPC regions.  A more verbose description of the correct usage and
    the possible error conditions is documented in sgx.rst.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021201155.1523989-3-pbonzini@redhat.com
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