[PATCH v3] SUPPORT.md: add Dom0less as Supported

[PATCH v3] SUPPORT.md: add Dom0less as Supported

[Stefano Stabellini]

Add Dom0less to SUPPORT.md to clarify its support status. The feature is
mature enough and small enough to make it security supported.

Clarify that dom0less DomUs memory is not scrubbed at boot when
bootscrub=on or bootscrub=off are passed as Xen command line parameters,
and no XSAs will be issued for that.

Also see XSA-372: 371347c5b64da and fd5dc41ceaed.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- improve commit messahe
- improve SUPPORT.md statement
- add Bertrand's reviewed-by

Changes in v2:
- clarify memory scrubbing
---

diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md
index 32fb0aa8de..088dda9561 100644
--- a/SUPPORT.md
+++ b/SUPPORT.md
@@ -882,6 +882,17 @@ OVMF firmware implements the UEFI boot protocol.
 
     Status, qemu-xen: Supported
 
+## Dom0less
+
+Guest creation from the hypervisor at boot without Dom0 intervention.
+
+    Status, ARM: Supported
+
+Memory of dom0less DomUs is not scrubbed at boot when bootscrub=on or
+bootscrub=off are passed as Xen command line parameters. (Memory should
+be scrubbed with bootscrub=idle.) No XSAs will be issues due to
+unscrubbed memory.
+
 # Format and definitions
 
 This file contains prose, and machine-readable fragments.

RE: [PATCH v3] SUPPORT.md: add Dom0less as Supported

[Henry Wang]

Hi Stefano,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xen-devel <xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org> On Behalf Of
> Stefano Stabellini
> Sent: Friday, April 8, 2022 8:11 AM
> To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org; julien@xen.org; andrew.cooper3@citrix.com;
> george.dunlap@citrix.com; jbeulich@suse.com; wl@xen.org
> Subject: [PATCH v3] SUPPORT.md: add Dom0less as Supported
> 
> Add Dom0less to SUPPORT.md to clarify its support status. The feature is
> mature enough and small enough to make it security supported.
> 
> Clarify that dom0less DomUs memory is not scrubbed at boot when
> bootscrub=on or bootscrub=off are passed as Xen command line parameters,
> and no XSAs will be issued for that.
> 
> Also see XSA-372: 371347c5b64da and fd5dc41ceaed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - improve commit messahe

For the patch I don't have any comments, but I think here we've got
a typo: s/messahe/message. I think it is ok to fix while committing this
patch so this is just a kind reminder :))

Kind regards,
Henry 

Re: [PATCH v3] SUPPORT.md: add Dom0less as Supported

[Julien Grall]

Hi Henry,

On 08/04/2022 01:50, Henry Wang wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Xen-devel <xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org> On Behalf Of
>> Stefano Stabellini
>> Sent: Friday, April 8, 2022 8:11 AM
>> To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
>> Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org; julien@xen.org; andrew.cooper3@citrix.com;
>> george.dunlap@citrix.com; jbeulich@suse.com; wl@xen.org
>> Subject: [PATCH v3] SUPPORT.md: add Dom0less as Supported
>>
>> Add Dom0less to SUPPORT.md to clarify its support status. The feature is
>> mature enough and small enough to make it security supported.
>>
>> Clarify that dom0less DomUs memory is not scrubbed at boot when
>> bootscrub=on or bootscrub=off are passed as Xen command line parameters,
>> and no XSAs will be issued for that.
>>
>> Also see XSA-372: 371347c5b64da and fd5dc41ceaed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
>> ---
>> Changes in v3:
>> - improve commit messahe
> 
> For the patch I don't have any comments, but I think here we've got
> a typo: s/messahe/message. I think it is ok to fix while committing this
> patch so this is just a kind reminder :))

Anything after --- will be stripped by git am. So there is nothing to 
fix it on commit.

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall

Re: [PATCH v3] SUPPORT.md: add Dom0less as Supported

[Julien Grall]

Hi,

On 08/04/2022 01:10, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Add Dom0less to SUPPORT.md to clarify its support status. The feature is
> mature enough and small enough to make it security supported.
> 
> Clarify that dom0less DomUs memory is not scrubbed at boot when
> bootscrub=on or bootscrub=off are passed as Xen command line parameters,
> and no XSAs will be issued for that.
> 
> Also see XSA-372: 371347c5b64da and fd5dc41ceaed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>


Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall

RE: [PATCH v3] SUPPORT.md: add Dom0less as Supported

[Henry Wang]

Hi Julien and Stefano,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
> >
> > For the patch I don't have any comments, but I think here we've got
> > a typo: s/messahe/message. I think it is ok to fix while committing this
> > patch so this is just a kind reminder :))
> 
> Anything after --- will be stripped by git am. So there is nothing to
> fix it on commit.

Ack, thanks for the reminder. Sorry to Stefano.

Kind regards,
Henry

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Julien Grall