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[xen staging-4.14] SUPPORT.md: Un-shimmed 32-bit PV guests are no longer supported



commit c6ee6d4ec3c87d67e8fee58e28459c22c44b384b
Author:     George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu Jul 15 09:28:59 2021 +0200
Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu Jul 15 09:28:59 2021 +0200

    SUPPORT.md: Un-shimmed 32-bit PV guests are no longer supported
    
    The support status of 32-bit guests doesn't seem particularly useful.
    
    With it changed to fully unsupported outside of PV-shim, adjust the PV32
    Kconfig default accordingly.
    
    Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
    master commit: 1a0f2fe2297d122a08fee2b26de5de995fdeca13
    master date: 2021-06-04 17:24:05 +0100
---
 SUPPORT.md           | 9 +--------
 xen/arch/x86/Kconfig | 7 +++++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md
index cd786ac0c1..c45390a245 100644
--- a/SUPPORT.md
+++ b/SUPPORT.md
@@ -82,14 +82,7 @@ No hardware requirements
 
     Status, x86_64: Supported
     Status, x86_32, shim: Supported
-    Status, x86_32, without shim: Supported, with caveats
-
-Due to architectural limitations,
-32-bit PV guests must be assumed to be able to read arbitrary host memory
-using speculative execution attacks.
-Advisories will continue to be issued
-for new vulnerabilities related to un-shimmed 32-bit PV guests
-enabling denial-of-service attacks or privilege escalation attacks.
+    Status, x86_32, without shim: Supported, not security supported
 
 ### x86/HVM
 
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig b/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig
index a636a4bb1e..8af5d6be80 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config PV
 config PV32
        bool "Support for 32bit PV guests"
        depends on PV
-       default y
+       default PV_SHIM
        ---help---
          The 32bit PV ABI uses Ring1, an area of the x86 architecture which
          was deprecated and mostly removed in the AMD64 spec.  As a result,
@@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ config PV32
          reduction, or performance reasons.  Backwards compatibility can be
          provided via the PV Shim mechanism.
 
-         If unsure, say Y.
+         Note that outside of PV Shim, 32-bit PV guests are not security
+         supported anymore.
+
+         If unsure, use the default setting.
 
 config PV_LINEAR_PT
        bool "Support for PV linear pagetables"
--
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