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@@ -209,3 +209,44 @@ An application may be loaded into a container enclave which is specially
configured with a library OS and run-time which permits the application to run.
The enclave run-time and library OS work together to execute the application
when a thread enters the enclave.
+
+Impact of Potential Kernel SGX Bugs
+===================================
+
+EPC leaks
+---------
+
+When EPC page leaks happen, a WARNING like this is shown in dmesg:
+
+"EREMOVE returned ... and an EPC page was leaked. SGX may become unusable..."
+
+This is effectively a kernel use-after-free of an EPC page, and due
+to the way SGX works, the bug is detected at freeing. Rather than
+adding the page back to the pool of available EPC pages, the kernel
+intentionally leaks the page to avoid additional errors in the future.
+
+When this happens, the kernel will likely soon leak more EPC pages, and
+SGX will likely become unusable because the memory available to SGX is
+limited. However, while this may be fatal to SGX, the rest of the kernel
+is unlikely to be impacted and should continue to work.
+
+As a result, when this happpens, user should stop running any new
+SGX workloads, (or just any new workloads), and migrate all valuable
+workloads. Although a machine reboot can recover all EPC memory, the bug
+should be reported to Linux developers.
+
+
+Virtual EPC
+===========
+
+The implementation has also a virtual EPC driver to support SGX enclaves
+in guests. Unlike the SGX driver, an EPC page allocated by the virtual
+EPC driver doesn't have a specific enclave associated with it. This is
+because KVM doesn't track how a guest uses EPC pages.
+
+As a result, the SGX core page reclaimer doesn't support reclaiming EPC
+pages allocated to KVM guests through the virtual EPC driver. If the
+user wants to deploy SGX applications both on the host and in guests
+on the same machine, the user should reserve enough EPC (by taking out
+total virtual EPC size of all SGX VMs from the physical EPC size) for
+host SGX applications so they can run with acceptable performance.