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Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] xen/privcmd: add IOCTL_PRIVCMD_RESTRICT

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  Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] xen/privcmd: add IOCTL_PRIVCMD_RESTRICT Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-02-15 15:50 +0100

#1581368 — Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] xen/privcmd: add IOCTL_PRIVCMD_RESTRICT

On 02/13/2017 12:03 PM, Paul Durrant wrote:
> The purpose if this ioctl is to allow a user of privcmd to restrict its
> operation such that it will no longer service arbitrary hypercalls via
> IOCTL_PRIVCMD_HYPERCALL, and will check for a matching domid when
> servicing IOCTL_PRIVCMD_DM_OP. The aim of this is to limit the attack
> surface for a compromised device model.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>


Applied to for-linus-4.11 (with commit message adjustment)

-boris

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