Re: [PATCH v2 02/28] hw: mark all virtio CCW devices as secure

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2026 at 12:38:09PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 29/10/2026 14.12, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > These are all intended for use in a virtualization scenario and must
> > provide a security boundary.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com>
> > Acked-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> > Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> ...
> > diff --git a/hw/s390x/virtio-ccw-9p.c b/hw/s390x/virtio-ccw-9p.c
> > index d8612f7cd13..08d3ee577b4 100644
> > --- a/hw/s390x/virtio-ccw-9p.c
> > +++ b/hw/s390x/virtio-ccw-9p.c
> > @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ static const TypeInfo virtio_ccw_9p_info = {
> >       .instance_size = sizeof(V9fsCCWState),
> >       .instance_init = virtio_ccw_9p_instance_init,
> >       .class_init    = virtio_ccw_9p_class_init,
> > +    .secure        = true,
> >   };
> I wonder whether we really want to include virtio-9p in the list of secure
> devices ... but in case we reconsider, I guess that can be refined later,
> so:

In terms of what we've documented about "virtualization use case"
being the criteria for security triage, I consider everything
related to virtio- to be already in-scope and not up for debate.
No one reading our current docs would expect anything "virtio" to
fall under the non-virtualization use case.

Now we have this explicit marker though, we can consider being more
fine grained in what we cover though. The question is how / when we
move a device from the "secure" to "not secure" bucket.

That direction should be very rare, because users need to have long
term certainty about what's treated secure. Our machine type
guarantees last for 6 years, 3 years of new VM deployments and
3 years deprecated where they should only be used for incoming
migrations/restores from saved state. Virtualization users / vendors
will expect security coverage for this kind of timeframe.

When we have maintainership problems with certain devices, if they
are marked secure, those are something we need to flag as priority
to various vendors like Red Hat who provide resource/investment
to QEMU. They're shipping this stuff and promising CVE fixes to
their paying customers and that needs to translate to investment
in QEMU upstream, though in the 9p case Red Hat does not actually
ship this particular device.

With regards,
Daniel
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