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SUPPORT.md: Add qemu-depriv section
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> --- Changes since v4: - Fix some grammar (s/attack/attacking/;) 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>
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@@ -526,6 +526,26 @@ Vulnerabilities of a device model stub domain
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to a hostile driver domain (either compromised or untrusted)
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are excluded from security support.
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### Device Model Deprivileging
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Status, Linux dom0: Tech Preview, with limited support
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This means adding extra restrictions to a device model in order to
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prevent a compromised device model from attacking the rest of the
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domain it's running in (normally dom0).
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"Tech preview with limited support" means we will not issue XSAs for
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the _additional_ functionality provided by the feature; but we will
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issue XSAs in the event that enabling this feature opens up a security
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hole that would not be present without the feature disabled.
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For example, while this is classified as tech preview, a bug in libxl
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which failed to change the user ID of QEMU would not receive an XSA,
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since without this feature the user ID wouldn't be changed. But a
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change which made it possible for a compromised guest to read
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arbitrary files on the host filesystem without compromising QEMU would
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be issued an XSA, since that does weaken security.
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### KCONFIG Expert
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Status: Experimental
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