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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 14/16] SUPPORT.md: Add statement on PCI passthrough



Hi George,

On 13/11/17 15:41, George Dunlap wrote:
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
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  SUPPORT.md | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md
index 3e352198ce..a8388f3dc5 100644
--- a/SUPPORT.md
+++ b/SUPPORT.md
@@ -454,9 +454,23 @@ there is currently no xl support.
## Security +### Driver Domains
+
+    Status: Supported, with caveats
+
+"Driver domains" means allowing non-Domain 0 domains
+with access to physical devices to act as back-ends.
+
+See the appropriate "Device Passthrough" section
+for more information about security support.
+
  ### Device Model Stub Domains
- Status: Supported
+    Status: Supported, with caveats
+
+Vulnerabilities of a device model stub domain
+to a hostile driver domain (either compromised or untrusted)
+are excluded from security support.
### KCONFIG Expert @@ -522,6 +536,23 @@ Virtual Performance Management Unit for HVM guests
  Disabled by default (enable with hypervisor command line option).
  This feature is not security supported: see 
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-163.html
+### x86/PCI Device Passthrough
+
+    Status: Supported, with caveats
+
+Only systems using IOMMUs will be supported.
+
+Not compatible with migration, altp2m, introspection, memory sharing, or 
memory paging.
+
+Because of hardware limitations
+(affecting any operating system or hypervisor),
+it is generally not safe to use this feature
+to expose a physical device to completely untrusted guests.
+However, this feature can still confer significant security benefit
+when used to remove drivers and backends from domain 0
+(i.e., Driver Domains).
+See docs/PCI-IOMMU-bugs.txt for more information.

Where can I find this file? Is it in staging?

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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