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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/HVM: XSETBV intercept needs to check
	CPL on SVM only
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:33:22 -0500
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On 11/27/2015 06:01 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> VMX doesn't need a software CPL check on the XSETBV intercept, and
> SVM can do that check without resorting to hvm_get_segment_register().
>
> Clean up what is left of hvm_handle_xsetbv(), namely make it return a
> proper error code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>