Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] SUPPORT.md: Add qemu-depriv section

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org] On Behalf
> Of George Dunlap
> Sent: 05 November 2018 18:07
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> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>; Wei Liu
> <wei.liu2@citrix.com>; Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>; Andrew Cooper
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> <George.Dunlap@citrix.com>; Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>;
> Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>; Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>;
> Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>; Ian Jackson
> <Ian.Jackson@citrix.com>
> Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 2/6] SUPPORT.md: Add qemu-depriv section
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
> ---
> Changes since v3:
> - Moved from the qemu-depriv doc patches.
> - Reword to include the possibility of having a non-dom0 "devicemodel"
>   domain which may want to be protected
> - Specify `Linux dom0` as the currently-tech-supported window
> 
> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com>
> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
> CC: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
> CC: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
> CC: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
> ---
>  SUPPORT.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md
> index 4f203da84a..1f0f5857a7 100644
> --- a/SUPPORT.md
> +++ b/SUPPORT.md
> @@ -525,6 +525,26 @@ Vulnerabilities of a device model stub domain
>  to a hostile driver domain (either compromised or untrusted)
>  are excluded from security support.
> 
> +### Device Model Deprivileging
> +
> +    Status, Linux dom0: Tech Preview, with limited support
> +
> +This means adding extra restrictions to a device model in order to
> +prevent a compromised device model from attack the rest of the domain

s/attack/attacking/

  Paul

> +it's running in (normally dom0).
> +
> +"Tech preview with limited support" means we will not issue XSAs for
> +the _additional_ functionality provided by the feature; but we will
> +issue XSAs in the event that enabling this feature opens up a security
> +hole that would not be present without the feature disabled.
> +
> +For example, while this is classified as tech preview, a bug in libxl
> +which failed to change the user ID of QEMU would not receive an XSA,
> +since without this feature the user ID wouldn't be changed. But a
> +change which made it possible for a compromised guest to read
> +arbitrary files on the host filesystem without compromising QEMU would
> +be issued an XSA, since that does weaken security.
> +
>  ### KCONFIG Expert
> 
>      Status: Experimental
> --
> 2.19.1
> 
> 
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