The CPUID bit and MSR are deliberately not exposed to guests, because they
won't exist on newer processors. As vPMU isn't security supported, the
misbehaviour of PCR3 isn't expected to impact production deployments.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 6be613f29b
master date: 2019-03-12 17:05:21 +0000
In order to have a simple and easy to remember means to suppress all the
more or less recent workarounds for hardware vulnerabilities, force
settings not controlled by "spec-ctrl=" also to their original defaults,
unless they've been forced to specific values already by earlier command
line options.
This is part of XSA-273.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
(cherry picked from commit d8800a82c3)
This mitigation requires up-to-date microcode, and is enabled by default on
affected hardware if available, and is used for HVM guests
The default for SMT/Hyperthreading is far more complicated to reason about,
not least because we don't know if the user is going to want to run any HVM
guests to begin with. If a explicit default isn't given, nag the user to
perform a risk assessment and choose an explicit default, and leave other
configuration to the toolstack.
This is part of XSA-273 / CVE-2018-3620.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit 3bd36952da)
Shadowing a PV guest is only available when shadow paging is compiled in.
When shadow paging isn't available, guests can be crashed instead as
mitigation from Xen's point of view.
Ideally, dom0 would also be potentially-shadowed-by-default, but dom0 has
never been shadowed before, and there are some stability issues under
investigation.
This is part of XSA-273 / CVE-2018-3620.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit 66a4e98681)
It was never expected to work, the implementation is incomplete.
As a side effect, it also prevents guests from triggering a
"BUG_ON(page_get_owner(pg) != d)" in gnttab_unpopulate_status_frames().
This is XSA-268.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit 9a5c16a3e7)
This patch was originally released as part of XSA-226. It retains the same
command line syntax (as various downstreams are mitigating XSA-226 using this
mechanism) but the defaults have been updated due to the revised XSA-226
patched, after which transitive grants are believed to functioning
properly.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit dc96c65ed6)
Shared resources (L1 cache and TLB in particular) present a risk of
information leak via side channels. Provide a means to avoid use of
hyperthreads in such cases.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
master commit: d8f974f1a6
master date: 2018-07-19 13:43:33 +0100
Intel Core processors since at least Nehalem speculate past #NM, which is the
mechanism by which lazy FPU context switching is implemented.
On affected processors, Xen must use fully eager FPU context switching to
prevent guests from being able to read FPU state (SSE/AVX/etc) from previously
scheduled vcpus.
This is part of XSA-267 / CVE-2018-3665
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit 243435bf67)
Avoid flushing the complete TLB when switching %cr3 for mitigation of
Meltdown by using the PCID feature if available.
We are using 4 PCID values for a 64 bit pv domain subject to XPTI and
2 values for the non-XPTI case:
- guest active and in kernel mode
- guest active and in user mode
- hypervisor active and guest in user mode (XPTI only)
- hypervisor active and guest in kernel mode (XPTI only)
We use PCID only if PCID _and_ INVPCID are supported. With PCID in use
we disable global pages in cr4. A command line parameter controls in
which cases PCID is being used.
As the non-XPTI case has shown not to perform better with PCID at least
on some machines the default is to use PCID only for domains subject to
XPTI.
With PCID enabled we always disable global pages. This avoids having to
either flush the complete TLB or do a cycle through all PCID values
when invalidating a single global page.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
If possible use the INVPCID instruction for flushing the TLB instead of
toggling cr4.pge for that purpose.
While at it remove the dependency on cr4.pge being required for mtrr
loading, as this will be required later anyway.
Add a command line option "invpcid" for controlling the use of
INVPCID (default to true).
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Instead of switching XPTI globally on or off add a per-domain flag for
that purpose. This allows to modify the xpti boot parameter to support
running dom0 without Meltdown mitigations. Using "xpti=no-dom0" as boot
parameter will achieve that.
Move the xpti boot parameter handling to xen/arch/x86/pv/domain.c as
it is pv-domain specific.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To combat GPZ SP4 "Speculative Store Bypass", Intel have extended their
speculative sidechannel mitigations specification as follows:
* A feature bit to indicate that Speculative Store Bypass Disable is
supported.
* A new bit in MSR_SPEC_CTRL which, when set, disables memory disambiguation
in the pipeline.
* A new bit in MSR_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, which will be set in future hardware,
indicating that the hardware is not susceptible to Speculative Store Bypass
sidechannels.
For contemporary processors, this interface will be implemented via a
microcode update.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 9df52a25e0
master date: 2018-05-21 14:20:06 +0100
AMD processors will execute loads and stores with the same base register in
program order, which is typically how a compiler emits code.
Therefore, by default no mitigating actions are taken, despite there being
corner cases which are vulnerable to the issue.
For performance testing, or for users with particularly sensitive workloads,
the `spec-ctrl=ssbd` command line option is available to force Xen to disable
Memory Disambiguation on applicable hardware.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 8c0e338086
master date: 2018-05-21 14:20:06 +0100
In hindsight, the options for `bti=` aren't as flexible or useful as expected
(including several options which don't appear to behave as intended).
Changing the behaviour of an existing option is problematic for compatibility,
so introduce a new `spec-ctrl=` in the hopes that we can do better.
One common way of deploying Xen is with a single PV dom0 and all domUs being
HVM domains. In such a setup, an administrator who has weighed up the risks
may wish to forgo protection against malicious PV domains, to reduce the
overall performance hit. To cater for this usecase, `spec-ctrl=no-pv` will
disable all speculative protection for PV domains, while leaving all
speculative protection for HVM domains intact.
For coding clarity as much as anything else, the suboptions are grouped by
logical area; those which affect the alternatives blocks, and those which
affect Xen's in-hypervisor settings. See the xen-command-line.markdown for
full details of the new options.
While changing the command line options, take the time to change how the data
is reported to the user. The three DEBUG printks are upgraded to unilateral,
as they are all relevant pieces of information, and the old "mitigations:"
line is split in the two logical areas described above.
Sample output from booting with `spec-ctrl=no-pv` looks like:
(XEN) Speculative mitigation facilities:
(XEN) Hardware features: IBRS/IBPB STIBP IBPB
(XEN) Compiled-in support: INDIRECT_THUNK
(XEN) Xen settings: BTI-Thunk RETPOLINE, SPEC_CTRL: IBRS-, Other: IBPB
(XEN) Support for VMs: PV: None, HVM: MSR_SPEC_CTRL RSB
(XEN) XPTI (64-bit PV only): Dom0 enabled, DomU enabled
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 3352afc26c
master date: 2018-05-16 12:19:10 +0100
The current XPTI implementation isolates the directmap (and therefore a lot of
guest data), but a large quantity of CPU0's state (including its stack)
remains visible.
Furthermore, an attacker able to read .text is in a vastly superior position
to normal when it comes to fingerprinting Xen for known vulnerabilities, or
scanning for ROP/Spectre gadgets.
Collect together the entrypoints in .text.entry (currently 3x4k frames, but
can almost certainly be slimmed down), and create a common mapping which is
inserted into each per-cpu shadow. The stubs are also inserted into this
mapping by pointing at the in-use L2. This allows stubs allocated later (SMP
boot, or CPU hotplug) to work without further changes to the common mappings.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
x86/xpti: really hide almost all of Xen image
Commit 422588e885 ("x86/xpti: Hide almost all of .text and all
.data/.rodata/.bss mappings") carefully limited the Xen image cloning to
just entry code, but then overwrote the just allocated and populated L3
entry with the normal one again covering both Xen image and stubs.
Drop the respective code in favor of an explicit clone_mapping()
invocation. This in turn now requires setup_cpu_root_pgt() to run after
stub setup in all cases. Additionally, with (almost) no unintended
mappings left, the BSP's IDT now also needs to be page aligned.
The moving ahead of cleanup_cpu_root_pgt() is not strictly necessary
for functionality, but things are more logical this way, and we retain
cleanup being done in the inverse order of setup.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
x86/traps: Put idt_table[] back into .bss
c/s d1d6fc97d "x86/xpti: really hide almost all of Xen image" accidentially
moved idt_table[] from .bss to .data by virtue of using the page_aligned
section. We also have .bss.page_aligned, so use that.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
master commit: 422588e885
master date: 2018-02-15 11:08:27 +0000
master commit: d1d6fc97d6
master date: 2018-03-06 16:46:27 +0100
master commit: 044fedfaa2
master date: 2018-03-09 15:42:24 +0000
Issuing an IBPB command flushes the Branch Target Buffer, so that any poison
left by one vcpu won't remain when beginning to execute the next.
The cost of IBPB is substantial, and skipped on transition to idle, as Xen's
idle code is robust already. All transitions into vcpu context are fully
serialising in practice (and under consideration for being retroactively
declared architecturally serialising), so a cunning attacker cannot use SP1 to
try and skip the flush.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: a2ed643ed7
master date: 2018-01-26 14:10:21 +0000
See the logic and comments in init_speculation_mitigations() for further
details.
There are two controls for RSB overwriting, because in principle there are
cases where it might be safe to forego rsb_native (Off the top of my head,
SMEP active, no 32bit PV guests at all, no use of vmevent/paging subsystems
for HVM guests, but I make no guarantees that this list of restrictions is
exhaustive).
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
x86/spec_ctrl: Fix determination of when to use IBRS
The original version of this logic was:
/*
* On Intel hardware, we'd like to use retpoline in preference to
* IBRS, but only if it is safe on this hardware.
*/
else if ( boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRSB) )
{
if ( retpoline_safe() )
thunk = THUNK_RETPOLINE;
else
ibrs = true;
}
but it was changed by a request during review. Sadly, the result is buggy as
it breaks the later fallback logic by allowing IBRS to appear as available
when in fact it isn't.
This in practice means that on repoline-unsafe hardware without IBRS, we
select THUNK_JUMP despite intending to select THUNK_RETPOLINE.
Reported-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 2713715305
master date: 2018-01-26 14:10:21 +0000
master commit: 30cbd0c83e
master date: 2018-02-06 18:32:58 +0000
Instead of gaining yet another top level boolean, introduce a more generic
cpuid= option. Also introduce a helper function to parse a generic boolean
value.
This is part of XSA-254.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
xen/cmdline: Fix parse_boolean() for unadorned values
A command line such as "cpuid=no-ibrsb,no-stibp" tickles a bug in
parse_boolean() because the separating comma fails the NUL case.
Instead, check for slen == nlen which accounts for the boundary (if any)
passed via the 'e' parameter.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 7850b1c007
master date: 2018-01-16 17:45:50 +0000
master commit: ac37ec1dde
master date: 2018-01-31 10:47:12 +0000
Depending on hardware and microcode availability, we will want to replace
IND_THUNK_REPOLINE with other implementations.
For AMD hardware, choose IND_THUNK_LFENCE in preference to retpoline if lfence
is known to be (or was successfully made) dispatch serialising.
This is part of XSA-254.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 858cba0d4c
master date: 2018-01-16 17:45:50 +0000
First of all we don't need it on AMD systems. Additionally allow its use
to be controlled by command line option. For best backportability, this
intentionally doesn't use alternative instruction patching to achieve
the intended effect - while we likely want it, this will be later
follow-up.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
master commit: e871e80c38
master date: 2018-01-16 17:50:59 +0100
Allowing pagetables to point to other pagetables of the same level
(often called 'linear pagetables') has been included in Xen since its
inception; but recently it has been the source of a number of subtle
reference-counting bugs.
It is not used by Linux or MiniOS; but it is used by NetBSD and Novell
Netware. There are significant numbers of people who are never going
to use the feature, along with significant numbers who need the
feature.
Add a Kconfig option for the feature (default to 'y'). Also add a
command-line option to control whether PV linear pagetables are
allowed (default to 'true').
NB that we leave linear_pt_count in the page struct. It's in a union,
so its presence doesn't increase the size of the data struct.
Changing the layout of the other elements based on configuration
options is asking for trouble however; so we'll just leave it there
and ASSERT that it's zero.
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 3285e75dea
master date: 2017-10-27 14:36:45 +0100
The way the lock is currently being used in get_maptrack_handle(), it
protects only the maptrack limit: The function acts on current's list
only, so races on list accesses are impossible even without the lock.
Otoh list access races are possible between __get_maptrack_handle() and
put_maptrack_handle(), due to the invocation of the former for other
than current from steal_maptrack_handle(). Introduce a per-vCPU lock
for list accesses to become race free again. This lock will be
uncontended except when it becomes necessary to take the steal path,
i.e. in the common case there should be no meaningful performance
impact.
When in get_maptrack_handle adds a stolen entry to a fresh, empty,
freelist, we think that there is probably no concurrency. However,
this is not a fast path and adding the locking there makes the code
clearly correct.
Also, while we are here: the stolen maptrack_entry's tail pointer was
not properly set. Set it.
This is CVE-2017-12136 / XSA-228.
Reported-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
master commit: 02cbeeb620
master date: 2017-08-15 15:07:25 +0200
Introduce new Xen command line parameter called "vwfi", which stands for
virtual wfi. The default is "trap": Xen traps guest wfi and wfe
instructions. In the case of wfi, Xen calls vcpu_block on the guest
vcpu; in the case of guest wfe, Xen calls vcpu_yield on the guest vcpu.
The behavior can be changed by setting vwfi to "native", in that case
Xen doesn't trap neither wfi nor wfe, running them in guest context.
The result is strong reduction in irq latency (from 5000ns to 2000ns,
measured using https://github.com/edgarigl/tbm, the physical timer, and
1 pcpu dedicated to 1 vcpu). The downside is that the scheduler thinks
that the guest is busy when actually is sleeping, leading to suboptimal
scheduling decisions.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
.. in the design document. The official location is:
git://xenbits.xen.org/livepatch-build-tools.git
Wiki is also updated with this URL.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
master commit: 6e03a34108
Specifically:
s/\.xsplice/\.livepatch/
s/XSPLICE/LIVEPATCH/
s/xsplice/livepatch/
s/livepatch_patch_func/livepatch_func/
s/xSplice/Xen Live Patch/
s/livepatching/livepatch/
s/arch_livepatch_enter/arch_livepatch_quiesce/
s/arch_livepatch_exit/arch_livepatch_revive/
And then modify some of the function arguments
to have two more characters.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
xenstore-paths.markdown talked about ~/device/serial/, but that's not
used.
(It is very wrong for this value, which contains a driver domain
filesystem path, to be in the guest's area of xenstore. However, it
is only ever created by libxl and ready by xenconsoled. When it is
created, it inherits the read-only permissions of /local/domain/DOMID.
So there is no security bug.)
This is a followup to XSA-175.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
We want to stop libxl trustingly reading information from the backend
directory (since this is, of course, writeable by the backend, which
might be a semi-trusted driver domain).
In principle it is wrong in current libxl for anything to try to
divine virtual device configuration from xenstore: the JSON domain
config ought to supply that, and xenstore should only tell us which
devices actually exist.
However:
Firstly, there are several existing places where configuration
information is retrieved from xenstore rather than JSON. We do not
want to reen gineer this in a security patch.
Secondly, we want to make a security patch which can be backported to
versions of libxl without the JSON configuration machinery.
So we take the expedient approach of keeping a copy of the
configuration somewhere we trust, namely /libxl. This is obviously
fairly low-risk, although it does write significantly more keys in
xenstore.
In this patch we make this change in libxl__device_generic_add. This
is responsible for actually writing the vast majority of device
information to xenstore. There are a few loose ends which will be
dealt with in a moment.
Likewise, changes to readers to use the new location will appear in
further patches.
This is part of XSA-178.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This gives us a record of all the backends we have set up for a
domain, which is separate from the frontends in
/local/domain/$DOMID/device.
In particular:
1. A guest has write permission for the frontend path:
/local/domain/$DOMID/device/$KIND/$DEVID
which means that the guest can completely delete the frontend.
(They can't recreate it because they don't have write permission
on the containing directory.)
2. A guest has write permission for the backend path recorded in the
frontend, ie, it can write to
/local/domain/$DOMID/device/$KIND/$DEVID/backend
which means that the guest can break the association between
frontend and backend.
So we can't rely on iterating over the frontends to find all the
backends, or examining a frontend to discover how a device is
configured.
So, have libxl__device_generic_add record the frontend and backend
paths in /libxl/$DOMID/device, and have libxl__device_destroy remove
them again.
Create the containing directory /libxl/GUEST/device in
libxl__domain_make. The already existing xs_rm in devices_destroy_cb
will take care of removing it.
This is part of XSA-175.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
---
v2: Correct actual path computation (!)
v3: Correct actual path computation - really this time (!)
Running QEMU as non-root user is not ready yet, so replace the warning
with a debug message and remove the option from the man page.
Also improve the doc to include more potential issue with running QEMU
as non-root.
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Pandoc (version 1.12.4.2 from Debian Jessie) complains at the embedded \n in
the signature checking paragraph.
/usr/bin/pandoc --number-sections --toc --standalone misc/xsplice.markdown
--output pdf/misc/xsplice.pdf
! Undefined control sequence.
l.1085 appended\textasciitilde{}\n
Surround the string in backticks to make it verbatim text.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
As discussed on the hackathon, avoid us having to issue security
advisories for issues affecting only heavily disaggregated tool stack
setups, which no-one appears to use (or else they should step up to get
things into shape).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
We now expect that the ELF payloads be built with the
--build-id.
Also the .xsplice.deps section has to have the contents
of the hypervisor (or a preceding payload) build-id.
We already have the code to verify the Elf_Note build-id
so export parts of it.
This dependency means the hypervisor MUST be compiled with
--build-id - so we gate the build of xSplice on the availability
of said functionality.
This does not impact the ordering of how the payloads can
be loaded, but it does enforce an STRICT ordering when the
payloads are applied. Also the REPLACE is special - we need
to check that its dependency against the hypervisor - not
the last applied patch.
To make this easier to test we also add an extra test-case
to be used - which can only be applied on top of the
xen_hello_world payload.
As in, one can apply xen_hello_world and then xen_bye_world
on top of that. Not the other way.
We also print the dependency and payloads build_in the keyhandler.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This change demonstrates how to generate an xSplice ELF payload.
The idea here is that we want to patch in the hypervisor
the 'xen_version_extra' function with an function that will
return 'Hello World'. The 'xl info | grep extraversion'
will reflect the new value after the patching.
To generate this ELF payload file we need:
- C code of the new code (xen_hello_world_func.c).
- C code generating the .xsplice.funcs structure
(xen_hello_world.c)
- The address of the old code (xen_extra_version). We
retrieve it by using 'nm --defined' on xen-syms.
- The size of the new and old code for which we use
nm --defined -S on our code and xen-syms respectively.
There are two C files and one header files generated
during build. One could make this one C file if the
size of the newly patched function size was known in
advance (or an random value was choosen).
There is also a strict order of compiling:
1) xen_hello_world_func.c
2) config.h - extract the size of the new function,
the old function and the old function address.
3) xen_hello_world.c - which contains the .xsplice.funcs
structure.
4) Link the object files in an xen_hello_world.xsplice file.
The use-case is simple:
$xen-xsplice load /usr/lib/debug/xen_hello_world.xsplice
$xen-xsplice list
ID | status
----------------------------------------+------------
xen_hello_world APPLIED
$xl info | grep extra
xen_extra : Hello World
$xen-xsplice revert xen_hello_world
Performing revert: completed
$xen-xsplice unload xen_hello_world
Performing unload: completed
$xl info | grep extra
xen_extra : -unstable
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> [ARM]
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
A mechanism is required to binarily patch the running hypervisor with new
opcodes that have come about due to primarily security updates.
This document describes the design of the API that would allow us to
upload to the hypervisor binary patches.
This document has been shaped by the input from:
Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de>
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Thank you!
Input-from: Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de>
Input-from: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Add a section about what the firmware should do in EL3 before starting Xen.
E.g guest will use HVC instruction to issue hypercall. As this can be set only
at EL3, i.e. outside Xen, document this boot requirement.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
The command line instructions for FLASK include a note on how to compile
Xen with FLASK but the note was out of date after the change to Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This patch updates the documentation for allowing detection of an XSM
module that lacks a specific compatible string.
This mechanism has been added by the commit
ca32012341.
Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
The previous default of "permissive" is meant for developing or
debugging a disaggregated system. However, this default makes it too
easy to accidentally boot a machine in this state, which does not place
any restrictions on guests. This is not suitable for normal systems
because any guest can perform any operation (including operations like
rebooting the machine, kexec, and reading or writing another domain's
memory).
This change will cause the boot to fail if you do not specify an XSM
policy during boot; if you need to load a policy from dom0, use the
"flask=late" boot parameter.
Original patch by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>; modified
to also change the default value of flask_enforcing so that the policy
is not still in permissive mode. This also removes the (no longer
documented) command line argument directly changing that variable since
it has been superseded by the flask= parameter.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
In fact, credit2 uses CPU topology to decide how to arrange
its internal runqueues. Before this change, only 'one runqueue
per socket' was allowed. However, experiments have shown that,
for instance, having one runqueue per physical core improves
performance, especially in case hyperthreading is available.
In general, it makes sense to allow users to pick one runqueue
arrangement at boot time, so that:
- more experiments can be easily performed to even better
assess and improve performance;
- one can select the best configuration for his specific
use case and/or hardware.
This patch enables the above.
Note that, for correctly arranging runqueues to be per-core,
just checking cpu_to_core() on the host CPUs is not enough.
In fact, cores (and hyperthreads) on different sockets, can
have the same core (and thread) IDs! We, therefore, need to
check whether the full topology of two CPUs matches, for
them to be put in the same runqueue.
Note also that the default (although not functional) for
credit2, since now, has been per-socket runqueue. This patch
leaves things that way, to avoid mixing policy and technical
changes.
Finally, it would be a nice feature to be able to select
a particular runqueue arrangement, even when creating a
Credit2 cpupool. This is left as future work.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Uma Sharma <uma.sharma523@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Add the FreeBSD disk hotplug interface details to the block-scripts.txt
document.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Add a new pvusb backend type "qusb" which is provided by qemu. It can
be selected either by specifying the type directly in the configuration
or it is selected automatically by libxl in case there is no "usbback"
driver loaded.
The "qusb" backend is a full replacement for the kernel based backend
"vusb". The interface to the frontend is the very same including all
Xenstore paths, while the backend paths in Xenstore differ ("qusb"
instead ov "vusb").
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Add a function to query whether the device model is supporting a
specific backend type. The device model is writing the supported
backend types to Xenstore on startup. The new query function checks
for the appropriate entry to be present.
As not all versions of qemu are capable to indicate support of
specific backends the query function is to be called with an indicator
whether the default return value should be "supported" (in case qemu
doesn't know set any support information) or "not supported".
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
The patches adding Xen tools support for paravirtualized USB devices
(pvUSB) omitted documenting the introduced Xenstore paths.
Add the paths to docs/misc/xenstore-paths.markdown
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The hyperlinks for the different I/O protocols are wrong.
Correct them.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Andrew Cooper
Jan Beulich
Stefano Stabellini
Juergen Gross
George Dunlap
Olaf Hering
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Ian Jackson
Anthony PERARD
Dirk Behme
Fu Wei
Doug Goldstein
Daniel De Graaf
Dario Faggioli
Roger Pau Monne