> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xen-devel [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of George Dunlap
> Sent: 05 November 2018 18:07
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>; Wei Liu
> <[email protected]>; Konrad Wilk <[email protected]>; Andrew Cooper
> <[email protected]>; Tim (Xen.org) <[email protected]>; George Dunlap
> <[email protected]>; Ross Lagerwall <[email protected]>;
> Julien Grall <[email protected]>; Jan Beulich <[email protected]>;
> Anthony Perard <[email protected]>; Ian Jackson
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 2/6] SUPPORT.md: Add qemu-depriv section
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <[email protected]>
> ---
> 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 <[email protected]>
> CC: Wei Liu <[email protected]>
> CC: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>
> CC: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> CC: Tim Deegan <[email protected]>
> CC: Konrad Wilk <[email protected]>
> CC: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
> CC: Julien Grall <[email protected]>
> CC: Anthony Perard <[email protected]>
> CC: Ross Lagerwall <[email protected]>
> ---
>  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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