From: "Orzel, Michal" <michal.orzel@amd.com>
To: Sergiy Kibrik <Sergiy_Kibrik@epam.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>,
Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>,
Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>,
"Daniel P. Smith" <dpsmith@apertussolutions.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] common: dom0less-bindings: introduce XSM labels
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:58:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d13a53d1-cadb-4b04-9894-ebfc1283ff46@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260909085707.2359322-1-Sergiy_Kibrik@epam.com>
On 09-Sep-26 10:57, Sergiy Kibrik wrote:
> Add "seclabel" property to be able to specify security label for a domain
> when XSM Flask is enabled, similar to xl configuration files.
>
> Currently guest domain can't be created by Xen in dom0less configuration when
> Flask is enabled, as domain is assigned "system_u:system_r:unlabeled_t" label
> by default, which Flask denies to create according to current policy.
>
> Because code from outside of flask can't directly execute its internal API
> a new routine flask_context_to_sid() introduced as part of XSM API exposed
> to rest of Xen, which is a direct wrapper for security_context_to_sid().
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergiy Kibrik <Sergiy_Kibrik@epam.com>
> CC: Daniel P. Smith <dpsmith@apertussolutions.com>
> CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> ---
> changes in v2:
> - add & use flask_context_to_sid() wrapper
> ---
> docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt | 8 ++++++++
> xen/common/device-tree/dom0less-bindings.c | 11 +++++++++++
> xen/include/xsm/xsm.h | 3 +++
> xen/xsm/flask/hooks.c | 5 +++++
> 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt
> index bcb06bc796..fcc7be0ffb 100644
> --- a/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt
> +++ b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt
> @@ -345,6 +345,12 @@ with the following properties:
> not passed. This configuration requires static allocation (xen,static-mem)
> and direct mapping (direct-map).
>
> +- seclabel
> +
> + A string property specifying an XSM security label to this domain. Effective
> + only when FLASK is enabled. Domains will be classified “unlabeled” if
For "Effective only when FLASK is enabled" see below.
> + this property not specified.
> +
> Under the "xen,domain" compatible node, one or more sub-nodes are present
> for the DomU kernel and ramdisk.
>
> @@ -422,6 +428,7 @@ chosen {
> memory = <0 131072>;
> cpus = <2>;
> vpl011;
> + seclabel = "system_u:system_r:domU_t";
>
> vcpu0 {
> compatible = "xen,vcpu";
> @@ -453,6 +460,7 @@ chosen {
> #size-cells = <0x1>;
> memory = <0 65536>;
> cpus = <1>;
> + seclabel = "system_u:system_r:domU_t";
>
> module@0x4c000000 {
> compatible = "multiboot,kernel", "multiboot,module";
> diff --git a/xen/common/device-tree/dom0less-bindings.c b/xen/common/device-tree/dom0less-bindings.c
> index 41d72d0d58..0b0ed6e25d 100644
> --- a/xen/common/device-tree/dom0less-bindings.c
> +++ b/xen/common/device-tree/dom0less-bindings.c
> @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
> #include <public/bootfdt.h>
> #include <public/domctl.h>
>
> +#include <xsm/xsm.h>
> +
> int __init parse_dom0less_node(struct dt_device_node *node,
> struct boot_domain *bd)
> {
> @@ -21,6 +23,7 @@ int __init parse_dom0less_node(struct dt_device_node *node,
> bool has_dtb = false;
> bool iommu = false;
> const char *dom0less_iommu = NULL;
> + const char *xsm_seclabel = NULL;
>
> if ( !dt_device_is_compatible(node, "xen,domain") )
> return -ENOENT;
> @@ -141,5 +144,13 @@ int __init parse_dom0less_node(struct dt_device_node *node,
> panic("'llc-colors' found, but LLC coloring is disabled\n");
> #endif
>
> + if ( IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_XSM_FLASK) &&
> + !dt_property_read_string(node, "seclabel", &xsm_seclabel) )
> + {
> + if ( flask_context_to_sid(xsm_seclabel, strlen(xsm_seclabel),
> + &d_cfg->ssidref) )
> + panic("Invalid security context for domain: %s\n", xsm_seclabel);
> + }
The preferred way (you can look at e.g. SVE, SCI, LLC) is to stop Xen if a
property was found whose functionality cannot be satisfied.
~Michal
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-11 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-09 8:57 [PATCH v2] common: dom0less-bindings: introduce XSM labels Sergiy Kibrik
2026-09-09 9:07 ` Jan Beulich
2026-09-09 10:39 ` Sergiy Kibrik
2026-09-11 7:58 ` Orzel, Michal [this message]
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