From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
Eric Northup <digitaleric@google.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Next gen kvm api
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:40:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F311BBD.5050600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3118EA.7040302@codemonkey.ws>
On 02/07/2012 02:28 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> It's a potential source of exploits
>> (from bugs in KVM or in hardware). I can see people wanting to be
>> selective with access because of that.
>
> As is true of the rest of the kernel.
>
> If you want finer grain access control, that's exactly why we have
> things like LSM and SELinux. You can add the appropriate LSM hooks
> into the KVM infrastructure and setup default SELinux policies
> appropriately.
LSMs protect objects, not syscalls. There isn't an object to protect
here (except the fake /dev/kvm object).
In theory, kvm is exactly the same as other syscalls, but in practice,
it is used by only very few user programs, so there may be many
unexercised paths.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-02 16:09 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Next gen kvm api Avi Kivity
2012-02-02 22:13 ` Rob Earhart
2012-02-02 22:16 ` Rob Earhart
2012-02-05 13:14 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-06 17:41 ` Rob Earhart
2012-02-06 19:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 12:03 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 15:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 16:02 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 16:18 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-07 16:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 16:29 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-15 13:41 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 16:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-15 13:47 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 12:01 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-03 2:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-04 2:08 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-02-22 13:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-05 9:24 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 1:08 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-07 12:24 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 12:51 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-07 13:16 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 13:40 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-07 14:21 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 14:39 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-15 11:18 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-15 11:57 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-15 13:29 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-15 13:37 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-15 13:57 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-15 14:08 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-16 19:24 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-16 19:34 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-16 19:38 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-16 20:41 ` Scott Wood
2012-02-17 0:23 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-17 18:27 ` Scott Wood
2012-02-18 9:49 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-17 0:19 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-18 10:00 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-18 10:43 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-15 19:17 ` Scott Wood
2012-02-12 7:10 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-02-15 13:32 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 15:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 15:28 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-08 17:20 ` Alan Cox
2012-02-15 13:33 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-15 22:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-10 3:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2012-02-03 18:07 ` Eric Northup
2012-02-03 22:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-06 19:46 ` Scott Wood
2012-02-07 6:58 ` Michael Ellerman
2012-02-07 10:04 ` Alexander Graf
2012-02-15 22:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-16 1:04 ` Michael Ellerman
2012-02-16 19:28 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-17 0:09 ` Michael Ellerman
2012-02-18 10:03 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-16 10:26 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 12:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 12:40 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-02-07 12:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 13:18 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 15:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-07 18:28 ` Chris Wright
2012-02-08 17:02 ` Scott Wood
2012-02-08 17:12 ` Alan Cox
2012-02-05 9:37 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-02-05 9:44 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-05 9:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-02-05 9:56 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-05 10:58 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-02-05 13:16 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-05 16:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-06 9:34 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-06 13:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-06 13:54 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-06 14:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-06 14:08 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-07 18:12 ` Rusty Russell
2012-02-15 13:39 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-15 21:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-16 8:57 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-02-16 14:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-16 19:34 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-15 23:08 ` Rusty Russell
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