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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Binun <binun@cs.bgu.ac.il>
Cc: yagel@cs.bgu.ac.il, kahilm@post.bgu.ac.il,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, boaz.menuhin@gmail.com,
	markbl@post.bgu.ac.il
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] different IDTs of the same VCPU
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:20:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5326E870.5040802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201403171154.s2HBsj6M009513@indigo.cs.bgu.ac.il>

Il 17/03/2014 12:54, Alexander Binun ha scritto:
> Dear friends, great thanks!
>
> To summarize: we are trying to monitor VCPU IDT changes that are done
> by external parties (e.g. rootkits) and not by intra-KVM machinery.
> Are there parameters that witness such changes ?

There is no way to intercept changes to the interrupt descriptor table.

You can:

* look at the IDTR values on every vmexit, including before injecting an 
interrupt, but that won't protect from hijacking software interrupts 
such as int $0x80;

* protect the IDT from writing using KVM's page table mechanisms, but 
that won't catch the case when the IDT is changed to a whole new page.

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2014-03-17 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-07 14:47 [Qemu-devel] sniffing traffic between VMs Alexander Binun
2013-10-10  9:02 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-10-10 11:00   ` [Qemu-devel] kvm binary is deprecated Alexander Binun
2013-10-11  9:05     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-10-12 14:45       ` Alexander Binun
2013-10-14  9:12         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-10-14 10:36           ` Alexander Binun
2013-10-14 14:16             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-10-24  9:23               ` [Qemu-devel] kvm binary is deprecated - solved! Alexander Binun
2013-10-24  9:49                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-10-24  9:54                   ` [Qemu-devel] observing VM actions Alexander Binun
2013-12-18 11:53           ` [Qemu-devel] sniffing traffic between virtual machines Alexander Binun
2013-12-19  9:05             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-03-05 16:35               ` [Qemu-devel] kill /destroy a VM - help Alexander Binun
2014-03-06 10:22                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-03-06 10:31                   ` Alexander Binun
2014-03-06 11:28                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-06 15:54                       ` [Qemu-devel] kill /destroy a VM - still hangs! Alexander Binun
2014-03-09 15:40                       ` [Qemu-devel] trying to kill a VM Alexander Binun
2014-03-13 12:59                       ` [Qemu-devel] different IDTs of the same VCPU Alexander Binun
2014-03-13 15:15                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-17 11:54                           ` Alexander Binun
2014-03-17 12:20                             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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