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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: constrain MFN range Dom0 may access
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:23:03 +0000
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On 20/01/16 15:38, Jan Beulich wrote:
> ... to that covered by the physical address width supported by the
> processor. This implicitly avoids Dom0 (accidentally or due to some
> kind of abuse) passing out of range addresses to a guest, which in
> turn eliminates this only possibility for PV guests to create PTEs
> with one or more reserved bits set.
>
> Note that this is not a security issue due to XSA-77.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>