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| author | Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> | 2026-09-23 09:37:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2026-09-26 00:39:55 -0400 |
| commit | 93de2a6a4b91b72607136dd656edf03fb399d27f (patch) | |
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| download | linux-stable-93de2a6a4b91b72607136dd656edf03fb399d27f.tar.gz linux-stable-93de2a6a4b91b72607136dd656edf03fb399d27f.zip | |
KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM during intra-host migrationgrafted
Manually perform cache maintenance on the source VM during intra-host
migration to ensure no stale data is left in CPU caches after the VM is
destroyed. Because the source VM is "converted" to a non-SEV VM, KVM's
memory reclaim flows won't trigger cache maintenance, e.g. when all guest
memory is reclaimed in response to detaching from the mmu_notifier.
Note, relying on the destination VM to do cache maintenance isn't an option
as KVM doesn't require identical guest memory configurations, i.e. the
source VM may have access to memory that the destination VM does not.
Enforcing equivalent memory configurations is infeasible, as it would
require a *deep* comparison of memslots, e.g. to verify that not only are
the memslot identical, but what the memslots point at is also identical.
Fixes: b56639318bb2 ("KVM: SEV: Add support for SEV intra host migration")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Stefan Teodorescu <fane@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-ID: <20260923163721.1584779-3-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a76da3738 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. Copyright (C) 2022 Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> +.. Copyright (C) 2022 Intel Corporation + +===================================== +Linux Security Modules +===================================== + +:Author: Casey Schaufler +:Date: July 2023 + +Linux security modules (LSM) provide a mechanism to implement +additional access controls to the Linux security policies. + +The various security modules may support any of these attributes: + +``LSM_ATTR_CURRENT`` is the current, active security context of the +process. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/current``. +This is supported by the SELinux, Smack and AppArmor security modules. +Smack also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/smack/current``. +AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/current``. + +``LSM_ATTR_EXEC`` is the security context of the process at the time the +current image was executed. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/exec``. +This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules. +AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/exec``. + +``LSM_ATTR_FSCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when +creating file system objects. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/fscreate``. +This is supported by the SELinux security module. + +``LSM_ATTR_KEYCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when +creating key objects. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/keycreate``. +This is supported by the SELinux security module. + +``LSM_ATTR_PREV`` is the security context of the process at the time the +current security context was set. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/prev``. +This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules. +AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/prev``. + +``LSM_ATTR_SOCKCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when +creating socket objects. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/sockcreate``. +This is supported by the SELinux security module. + +Kernel interface +================ + +Set a security attribute of the current process +----------------------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_lsm_set_self_attr + +Get the specified security attributes of the current process +------------------------------------------------------------ + +.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_lsm_get_self_attr + +.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_lsm_list_modules + +Additional documentation +======================== + +* Documentation/security/lsm.rst +* Documentation/security/lsm-development.rst |
