Got Garbled character after sending uint8_t* pointer to the enclave

[DylanWang]

Hi, Team!

I sent multiple uint8_t* pointers to the enclave and want to reconstruct the strings inside the enclave, the character is correct before passing it to the enclave while shows garbled characters inside the enclave. Detailed code is shown below:

// Untrusted Code

stringstream css;

size_t ectxt_len = resCtxt.size();

size_t* hostCtxt_length;

hostCtxt_length = (size_t*)malloc(ectxt_len * sizeof(size_t));

uint8_t** ectxt;

ectxt = (uint8_t**)malloc(ectxt_len * sizeof(uint8_t*));

for (size_t i = 0; i < ectxt_len; i++)

{        

       css.str(string());

       css.clear();

       resCtxt[i].writeTo(css);

       HostCtxtTemp = css.str();

       hostCtxt_length[i] = HostCtxtTemp.length();

       ectxt[i] = (uint8_t*) HostCtxtTemp.c_str();

}

// EDL function

multipleCtxtsTransform(enclave, &ret, ectxt, hostCtxt_length, ectxt_len)

//Enclave Code

for (size_t i = 0; i <ectxt_len; i++)

{

      printf("check ectxt[i]: %s\n", hostCtxt[i]);

      string temp = string(hostCtxt[i], hostCtxt[i] + hostCtxt_length[i]);

     ---------------OMIT--------------------

}

Result:

// Before ECALL, in untrusted region

check hostCtxt_length[0]: 246056
check ectxt[0]: |HE[
check hostCtxt_length[1]: 246056
check ectxt[1]: |HE[

// After ECALL, get the garbled characters inside the enclave

Enclave: check hostCtxt_length[i]=: 246056

check ectxt: �

P.S.

Expected characters should be |HE[ inside the enclave.

As we can see, I have already allocated memory using malloc outside the enclave.

The garbled characters will change in each run. It's strange.

[JesusG_Intel]

Hello DylanWang,

In the ecall function definition in the EDL file, you have to designate a pointer direction, [in], [out[], [user_check]. In your case, your [in] before the pointers that contain the characters you want to pass to the enclave. Refer to the section Pointer Handling in the SGX Developer Reference Guide for your OS. Also find more information here: https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/intel-software-guard-extensions-developing-a-sample-enclave-application.html, by searching for "[in]" within the page.

Sincerely,

Jesus G.

Intel Customer Support

[DylanWang · Accepted solution]

Hi Jesus,

Sry, I forgot to post EDL here.

public int multipleCtxtsTransform(

[in, count=num_resCtxt] uint8_t** hostCtxt,

[in, count=num_resCtxt] size_t* hostCtxt_length,

size_t num_resCtxt,

[out] uint8_t*** octxt,

[out] size_t** octxt_lengths,

[out] size_t* octxt_len);

And I have solved this issue, it's due to the memory allocation for 2-dimensional array in untrusted region.

Many thanks for your help!

[JesusG_Intel]

Thank you for confirming you solved the issue, DylanWang.

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