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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 13/22] xen/arm: its: Add virtual ITS command support





On Wednesday 29 April 2015 05:51 PM, Julien Grall wrote:
On 29/04/15 13:12, Manish Jaggi wrote:
and that too ITS is not in critical path. It is only used when configuring interrupts of the device?
You need to think about security... Even though the ITS should only be used for configuring interrupts, a malicious guest could try to exploit weakness in the emulation.
Can you describe the scenario ?
I already wrote several times the possible security impacts of the polling solution... Please read again the previous mails.
I see your comment "The vITS emulates hardware for a specific domain. A malicious guest could send request to a not own device" This scenario cannot happen as guest sbdf is converted to physical sbdf based on the domain. So if it does not own a device it would be treated as invalid command.

Do you have any other security concern ?


Regards,


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