[Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU Code Audit Team

[Anthony Liguori]

Hi,

I had an idea I wanted to share and see what level of interest there was in 
participating and if anyone knows of a process that other projects follow for this.

I'd like to start a more formal and transparent security audit of QEMU.  The way 
I'd imagine it working is something like this:

1) People volunteer to be part of the audit team

2) Two people walk through a particular piece of code and independently flag 
anything that looks like a potential security issue.

3) Two people independently review everything that's flagged to see if there's a 
security issue.

Step (3) is something that requires a fairly deep understanding of QEMU but step 
(2) is probably something that a lot of people could participate in.

I'd want to focus initially on the common PC devices.   The list isn't all that 
large and a review like this should only take a few hours to complete each step.

Would folks be interested in participating in something like this?  If so, I can 
start organizing it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori