/* * Nitro Enclaves accelerator * * Copyright © 2026 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. * * Authors: * Alexander Graf * * Nitro Enclaves are a confidential compute technology which * allows a parent instance to carve out resources from itself * and spawn a confidential sibling VM next to itself. Similar * to other confidential compute solutions, this sibling is * controlled by an underlying vmm, but still has a higher level * vmm (QEMU) to implement some of its I/O functionality and * lifecycle. * * This accelerator drives /dev/nitro_enclaves to spawn a Nitro * Enclave. It works in tandem with the nitro_enclaves machine * which ensures the correct backend devices are available and * that the initial seed (an EIF file) is loaded at the correct * offset in memory. * * The accel starts the enclave when the machine starts, after * all device setup is finished. * * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */ #include "qemu/osdep.h" #include "qemu/error-report.h" #include "qapi/error.h" #include "qapi/visitor.h" #include "qemu/module.h" #include "qemu/rcu.h" #include "qemu/accel.h" #include "qemu/guest-random.h" #include "qemu/main-loop.h" #include "accel/accel-ops.h" #include "accel/accel-cpu-ops.h" #include "accel/dummy-cpus.h" #include "system/cpus.h" #include "hw/core/cpu.h" #include "hw/core/boards.h" #include "hw/nitro/nitro-vsock-bus.h" #include "system/ramblock.h" #include "system/nitro-accel.h" #include "trace.h" #include #include "standard-headers/linux/nitro_enclaves.h" bool nitro_allowed; typedef struct NitroAccelState { AccelState parent_obj; int ne_fd; int enclave_fd; uint64_t slot_uid; uint64_t enclave_cid; bool debug_mode; } NitroAccelState; static int nitro_init_machine(AccelState *as, MachineState *ms) { NitroAccelState *s = NITRO_ACCEL(as); uint64_t slot_uid = 0; int ret; s->ne_fd = open("/dev/nitro_enclaves", O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC); if (s->ne_fd < 0) { error_report("nitro: failed to open /dev/nitro_enclaves: %s", strerror(errno)); return -errno; } ret = ioctl(s->ne_fd, NE_CREATE_VM, &slot_uid); if (ret < 0) { error_report("nitro: NE_CREATE_VM failed: %s", strerror(errno)); close(s->ne_fd); return -errno; } s->enclave_fd = ret; s->slot_uid = slot_uid; return 0; } static int nitro_donate_ram_block(RAMBlock *rb, void *opaque) { NitroAccelState *s = opaque; struct ne_user_memory_region region = { .flags = 0, .memory_size = rb->used_length, .userspace_addr = (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)rb->host, }; if (!rb->used_length) { return 0; } if (ioctl(s->enclave_fd, NE_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION, ®ion) < 0) { error_report("nitro: NE_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION failed for %s " "(%" PRIu64 " bytes): %s", rb->idstr, rb->used_length, strerror(errno)); return -errno; } return 0; } /* * Start the Enclave. At this point memory is set up and the EIF is loaded. * This function donates memory, adds vCPUs, and starts the enclave. */ static void nitro_setup_post(AccelState *as) { MachineState *ms = MACHINE(qdev_get_machine()); NitroAccelState *s = NITRO_ACCEL(as); int nr_cpus = ms->smp.cpus; int i, ret; struct ne_enclave_start_info start_info = { .flags = s->debug_mode ? NE_ENCLAVE_DEBUG_MODE : 0, .enclave_cid = s->enclave_cid, }; ret = qemu_ram_foreach_block(nitro_donate_ram_block, s); if (ret < 0) { error_report("nitro: failed to donate memory"); exit(1); } for (i = 0; i < nr_cpus; i++) { uint32_t cpu_id = 0; if (ioctl(s->enclave_fd, NE_ADD_VCPU, &cpu_id) < 0) { error_report("nitro: NE_ADD_VCPU failed: %s", strerror(errno)); exit(1); } } ret = ioctl(s->enclave_fd, NE_START_ENCLAVE, &start_info); if (ret < 0) { switch (errno) { case NE_ERR_NO_MEM_REGIONS_ADDED: error_report("nitro: no memory regions added"); break; case NE_ERR_NO_VCPUS_ADDED: error_report("nitro: no vCPUs added"); break; case NE_ERR_ENCLAVE_MEM_MIN_SIZE: error_report("nitro: memory is below the minimum " "required size. Try increasing -m"); break; case NE_ERR_FULL_CORES_NOT_USED: error_report("nitro: requires full CPU cores. " "Try increasing -smp to a multiple of threads " "per core on this host (e.g. -smp 2)"); break; case NE_ERR_NOT_IN_INIT_STATE: error_report("nitro: not in init state"); break; case NE_ERR_INVALID_FLAG_VALUE: error_report("nitro: invalid flag value for NE_START_ENCLAVE"); break; case NE_ERR_INVALID_ENCLAVE_CID: error_report("nitro: invalid enclave CID"); break; default: error_report("nitro: NE_START_ENCLAVE failed: %s (errno %d)", strerror(errno), errno); break; } exit(1); } s->enclave_cid = start_info.enclave_cid; trace_nitro_enclave_started(s->enclave_cid); /* * Notify all Nitro vsock bus devices that the enclave has started * and provide them with the CID for vsock connections. */ { NitroVsockBridge *bridge = nitro_vsock_bridge_find(); Error *err = NULL; if (bridge) { nitro_vsock_bridge_start_enclave(bridge, (uint32_t)s->enclave_cid, &err); if (err) { error_report_err(err); exit(1); } } } } /* QOM properties */ static bool nitro_get_debug_mode(Object *obj, Error **errp) { return NITRO_ACCEL(obj)->debug_mode; } static void nitro_set_debug_mode(Object *obj, bool value, Error **errp) { NITRO_ACCEL(obj)->debug_mode = value; } static void nitro_get_enclave_cid(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name, void *opaque, Error **errp) { uint64_t val = NITRO_ACCEL(obj)->enclave_cid; visit_type_uint64(v, name, &val, errp); } static void nitro_set_enclave_cid(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name, void *opaque, Error **errp) { uint64_t val; if (visit_type_uint64(v, name, &val, errp)) { NITRO_ACCEL(obj)->enclave_cid = val; } } static void nitro_accel_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, const void *data) { AccelClass *ac = ACCEL_CLASS(oc); ac->name = "Nitro"; ac->init_machine = nitro_init_machine; ac->setup_post = nitro_setup_post; ac->allowed = &nitro_allowed; object_class_property_add_bool(oc, "debug-mode", nitro_get_debug_mode, nitro_set_debug_mode); object_class_property_set_description(oc, "debug-mode", "Start enclave in debug mode (enables console output)"); object_class_property_add(oc, "enclave-cid", "uint64", nitro_get_enclave_cid, nitro_set_enclave_cid, NULL, NULL); object_class_property_set_description(oc, "enclave-cid", "Enclave CID (0 = auto-assigned by Nitro)"); } static const TypeInfo nitro_accel_type = { .name = TYPE_NITRO_ACCEL, .parent = TYPE_ACCEL, .instance_size = sizeof(NitroAccelState), .class_init = nitro_accel_class_init, }; module_obj(TYPE_NITRO_ACCEL); static bool nitro_cpus_are_resettable(void) { return false; } static void nitro_accel_ops_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, const void *data) { AccelOpsClass *ops = ACCEL_OPS_CLASS(oc); ops->create_vcpu_thread = dummy_start_vcpu_thread; ops->handle_interrupt = generic_handle_interrupt; ops->cpus_are_resettable = nitro_cpus_are_resettable; } static const TypeInfo nitro_accel_ops_type = { .name = ACCEL_OPS_NAME("nitro"), .parent = TYPE_ACCEL_OPS, .class_init = nitro_accel_ops_class_init, .abstract = true, }; module_obj(ACCEL_OPS_NAME("nitro")); static void nitro_type_init(void) { type_register_static(&nitro_accel_type); type_register_static(&nitro_accel_ops_type); } type_init(nitro_type_init);