From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: allow compiling out SMM support
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:38:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YzYCL9bvqDeg4HLP@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56a125ab-f113-56f7-f8cb-de05127c92b7@redhat.com>
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The two Kconfig entries for SMM and XEN are more for things that you want to
> remove to reduce attack surface than for testing.
Yep, we want to disable SMM to reduce KVM's attack/bug surface. Any performance
benefits are bonus side effects.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-29 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-27 15:22 [PATCH] KVM: allow compiling out SMM support Paolo Bonzini
2022-09-27 17:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-28 11:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-09-28 14:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-28 16:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-09-29 15:49 ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2022-09-29 16:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-09-29 20:38 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
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