On 25 August 2017 at 01:31, Florent Revest <florent.revest@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > This series implements a mechanism to sandbox EFI Runtime Services on arm64. > It can be enabled with CONFIG_EFI_SANDBOX. At boot it spawns an internal KVM > virtual machine that is ran everytime an EFI Runtime Service is called. This > limits the possible security and stability impact of EFI runtime on the kernel. > > The patch set is split as follow: > - Patches 1 and 2: Give more control over HVC handling to KVM > - Patches 3 to 6: Introduce the concept of KVM "internal VMs" > - Patches 7 to 9: Reorder KVM and EFI initialization on ARM > - Patch 10: Introduces the EFI sandboxing VM and wrappers > - Patch 11: Workarounds some EFI Runtime Services relying on EL3 > > The sandboxing has been tested to work reliably (rtc and efivars) on a > SoftIron OverDrive 1000 box and on a ARMv8.3 model with VHE enabled. Normal > userspace KVM instance have also been tested to still work correctly. > > Those patches apply cleanly on the Linus' v4.13-rc6 tag and have no other > dependencies. > > Florent Revest (11): > arm64: Add an SMCCC function IDs header > KVM: arm64: Return an Unknown ID on unhandled HVC > KVM: Allow VM lifecycle management without userspace > KVM, arm, arm64: Offer PAs to IPAs idmapping to internal VMs > KVM: Expose VM/VCPU creation functions > KVM, arm64: Expose a VCPU initialization function > KVM: Allow initialization before the module target > KVM, arm, arm64: Initialize KVM's core earlier > EFI, arm, arm64: Enable EFI Runtime Services later > efi, arm64: Sandbox Runtime Services in a VM > KVM, arm64: Don't trap internal VMs SMC calls > Hello Florent, This is really nice work. Thanks for contributing it. >From the EFI side, there are some minor concerns on my part regarding the calling convention, and the fact that we can no longer invoke runtime services from a kernel running at EL1, but those all seem fixable. I will respond to the patches in question in greater detail at a later time. In the mean time, Christoffer has raised a number for valid concerns, and those need to be addressed first before it makes sense to talk about EFI specifics. I hope you will find more time to invest in this: I would really love to have this feature upstream. Regards, Ard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
