I'm trying to understand the difference between SGX threads enabled by TCS and untrusted threading provided by SDK.
If I understand correctly, TCS enables multiple logical processors to enter the same enclave. Each logical processor will have its own TCS and hence its own entry point (the OENTRY
field in TCS). Each thread runs until an AEX happens or reaches the end of the thread. However, these threads enabled by TCS have no way to synchronize with each other yet. At least, there is no SGX instruction for synchronize.
Then, on the other hand, the SGX SDK offers a set of Thread Synchronization Primitives, mainly mutex and condition variable. These primitives are not trusted since they're eventually served by OS.
My question is, are these Thread Synchronization Primitives meant to be used by TCS threads? If so, wouldn't this deteriorate the security? The OS is able to play with scheduling as it wishes.