On Arm, exclusive load-store atomics should only be used between trusted
thread. As not all the guests are trusted, it may be possible to DoS Xen
when updating shared memory with guest atomically.
Recent patches introduced new helpers to update shared memory with guest
atomically. Those helpers relies on a memory region to be be shared with
Xen and a single guest.
At the moment, nothing prevent a guest sharing a page with Xen and as
well with another guest (e.g via grant table).
For the scope of the XSA, the quickest way is to deny communications
between unprivileged guest. So this patch is enabling and using SILO
mode by default on Arm.
Users wanted finer graine policy could wrote their own Flask policy.
This is part of XSA-295.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>