SGX runtimes such as Gramine may implement EDMM-based lazy allocation of enclave pages and may support MADV_DONTNEED semantics [1]. The former implies #PF-based page allocation, and the latter implies the usage of SGX_IOC_ENCLAVE_REMOVE_PAGES ioctl.
A trivial program like below (run under Gramine and with EDMM enabled) stresses these two flows in the SGX driver and hangs: /* repeatedly touch different enclave pages at random and mix with * `madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)` to stress EAUG/EREMOVE flows */ static void* thread_func(void* arg) { size_t num_pages = 0xA000 / page_size; for (int i = 0; i < 5000; i++) { size_t page = get_random_ulong() % num_pages; char data = READ_ONCE(((char*)arg)[page * page_size]); page = get_random_ulong() % num_pages; madvise(arg + page * page_size, page_size, MADV_DONTNEED); } } addr = mmap(NULL, 0xA000, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); pthread_t threads[16]; for (int i = 0; i < 16; i++) pthread_create(&threads[i], NULL, thread_func, addr); This program uncovers two data races in the SGX driver. The remaining patches describe and fix these races. I performed several stress tests to verify that there are no other data races (at least with the test program above): - On Icelake server with 128GB of PRMRR (EPC), without madvise(). This stresses the first data race. A Gramine SGX test suite running in the background for additional stressing. Result: 1,000 runs without hangs (result without the first bug fix: hangs every time). - On Icelake server with 128GB of PRMRR (EPC), with madvise(). This stresses the second data race. A Gramine SGX test suite running in the background for additional stressing. Result: 1,000 runs without hangs (result with the first bug fix but without the second bug fix: hangs approx. once in 50 runs). - On Icelake server with 4GB of PRMRR (EPC), with madvise(). This additionally stresses the enclave page swapping flows. Two Gramine SGX test suites running in the background for additional stressing of swapping (I observe 100% CPU utilization from ksgxd which confirms that swapping happens). Result: 1,000 runs without hangs. (Sorry for the previous copy of this email, accidentally sent to sta...@vger.kernel.org. Failed to use `--suppress-cc` during a test send.) Dmitrii Kuvaiskii (2): x86/sgx: Resolve EAUG race where losing thread returns SIGBUS x86/sgx: Resolve EREMOVE page vs EAUG page data race arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/encl.c | 10 +++++++--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/encl.h | 3 +++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 2.34.1