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[Xen-devel] dom0 vs non-dom0 differentiation inside Xen hypervisor
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| Subject: | [Xen-devel] dom0 vs non-dom0 differentiation inside Xen hypervisor |
| From: | "Peter Teoh" <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 3 Sep 2007 08:45:31 +0800 |
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In some parts of IA64 I can see that domain==dom0 checking is done, but
in all of x86 - I have yet to find a proper checking that the hypercalls
comes from a dom0 domain instead of any other domain.
Theoretically, this means that any domain (PV or HVM) can always modify its own kernel binary and then make a direct hypercall (via int 0x82 or SYSENTER) into the hypervisor, executing domain controller commands like create domain etc. Is this possible? Access control should be done from the hypervisor side, so any existing dom0 checking (CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST compilation option - done from the dom0 side) seems like pointless, because another domU can always modify its own kernel binaries to achieve all the features what CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST restrict - be it Windows XP or Linux. Please enlighten us. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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