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Andrew Cooper
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Per Xen's support statement, PCI passthrough should be to trusted domains
because the overall system security depends on factors outside of Xen's
control.
As such, Xen, in a supported configuration, is not vulnerable to DRPW/SBDR.
However, users who have risk assessed their configuration may be happy with
the risk of DoS, but unhappy with the risk of cross-domain data leakage. Such
users should enable this option.
On CPUs vulnerable to MDS, the existing mitigations are the best we can do to
mitigate MMIO cross-domain data leakage.
On CPUs fixed to MDS but vulnerable MMIO stale data leakage, this option:
* On CPUs susceptible to FBSDP, mitigates cross-domain fill buffer leakage
using FB_CLEAR.
* On CPUs susceptible to SBDR, mitigates RNG data recovery by engaging the
srb-lock, previously used to mitigate SRBDS.
Both mitigations require microcode from IPU 2022.1, May 2022.
This is part of XSA-404.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
(cherry picked from commit 8c24b70fed)