linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/8] x86_64 SandBox Mode arch hooks

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:35:29 +0100
From: Petr Tesařík <petr@...arici.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/8] x86_64 SandBox Mode arch hooks

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:19:27 +0000
"Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2024-02-14 at 19:32 +0100, Petr Tesařík wrote:
> > > What use case needs to have the sandbox both protected from the
> > > kernel
> > > (trusted operations) and non-privileged (the kernel protected from
> > > it
> > > via CPL3)? It seems like opposite things.  
> > 
> > I think I have mentioned one: parsing keys for the trusted keyring.
> > The
> > parser is complex enough to be potentially buggy, but the security
> > folks have already dismissed the idea to run it as a user mode
> > helper.  
> 
> Ah, I didn't realize the kernel needed to be protected from the key
> parsing part because you called it out as a trusted operation. So on
> the protect-the-kernel-side it's similar to the microkernel security
> reasoning.
> 
> Did I get the other part wrong - that you want to protect the sandbox
> from the rest of kernel as well?

Protecting the sandbox from the rest of the kernel is out of scope.
However, different sandboxes should be protected from each other.

Petr T