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doc: hld-security hypervisor enhancement section update

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Update some content for hypervisor enhancement section
 to keep it consistent with the design.

Signed-off-by: Yonghua Huang <yonghua.huang@intel.com>
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@ -530,8 +530,12 @@ hypercall invocation in the hypervisor design:
World\_switch Hypercall is used by the TIPC (Trusty IPC) driver to
switch guest VM context between secure world and non-secure world.
Further details will be discussed in the :ref:`secure_trusty` section.
#. For those hypercalls that may result in data inconsistent intra hypervisor
when they are executed concurrently, such as ``hcall_create_vm()``
``hcll_destroy_vm()`` etc. spinlock is used to ensure these hypercalls
are processed in hypervisor in a serializing way.
In addition to these two rules, there are other regular checks in the
In addition to above rules, there are other regular checks in the
hypercall implementation to prevent hypercalls from being misused. For
example, all the parameters must be sanitized, unexpected hypervisor
memory overwrite must be avoided, any hypervisor memory content/secrets
@ -542,15 +546,12 @@ I/O Emulation Handler
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I/O port monitoring is also widely used by the ACRN hypervisor to
emulate legacy I/O access behaviors. If the hypervisor cannot handle the
I/O vmexit appropriately, a malicious driver in the guest VM could
manipulate the I/O access to compromise the hypervisor and its guest
VM(s).
emulate legacy I/O access behaviors.
Typically, the I/O instructions could be IN, INS/INSB/INSW/INSD, OUT,
OUTS/OUTSB/OUTSW/OUTSD with arbitrary port (although not all the I/O
ports are monitored by hypervisor). As with other interface (e.g.
hypercalls), the hypervisor must perform security checks for all the I/O
hypercalls), the hypervisor performs security checks for all the I/O
access parameters to make sure the emulation behaviors are correct.
EPT Violation Handler
@ -571,7 +572,7 @@ There are some other VMEXIT handlers in the hypervisor which might take
untrusted parameters and registers from guest VM, for example, MSR write
VMEXIT, APIC VMEXIT.
Again, care must be taken by hypervisor to avoid security issue when
Sanity checks are performed by hypervisor to avoid security issue when
handling those special VMEXIT.
Guest Instruction Emulation
@ -618,18 +619,8 @@ scrubbed by either DM or hypervisor, then the new launched UOS could
access the previous UOS's secrets by scanning the memory regions
allocated for the new UOS.
In a secure hypervisor and DM design, there are two solutions to solve
this issue; the first one is preferred because it results in a smaller
attack window:
#. The memory content must be scrubbed immediately after the UOS is
shutdown or crashed.
#. The memory content must be scrubbed immediately before allocating a
memory area to launch a new UOS.
For project ACRN, the memory scrubbing operations could be done by the
hypervisor, DM, or vBIOS (vSBL). This is function design decision, which
is not in the scope of this document.
In ACRN, the memory content is scrubbed in Device Model after the guest
VM is shutdown.
UOS Reboot
~~~~~~~~~~
@ -655,8 +646,8 @@ the section on :ref:`platform_root_of_trust`.
Normally, this warm reboot (crashdump) feature is a debug feature, and
must be disabled in a production release. User who wants to use this
feature must possess the private signing key to re-sign the image (e.g.
the virtual SBL image) after enabling the configuration.
feature must possess the private signing key to re-sign the image after
enabling the configuration.
.. _uos_suspend_resume:
@ -673,8 +664,8 @@ SOS, the memory content of secure world of UOS must not be visible to
SOS. This is designed for security with defense in depth.
During the entire process of UOS sleep/suspend, the memory protection
for secure-world must be preserved too.The physical memory region of
secure world must be removed from EPT paging tables of any guest VM,
for secure-world is preserved too.The physical memory region of
secure world is removed from EPT paging tables of any guest VM,
even including the SOS VM.
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