From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>, Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: GET_RNG_SEED hypercall ABI? (Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] random,x86,kvm: Rework arch RNG seeds and get some from kvm)
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 21:46:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53FF8722.6080302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXDygWbKwPNux=qEbqVCCk28Lu7q+gJte=6ZwpCNsbd8w@mail.gmail.com>
Il 28/08/2014 18:22, Andy Lutomirski ha scritto:
> Is there a non-cpuid interface between QEMU and KVM for this?
No.
> AFAICT, even turning off cpuid bits for things like async pf doesn't
> actually disable the MSRs (which is arguably an attack surface issue).
No, it doesn't. You cannot disable instructions even if you hide CPUID
bits, so KVM just extends this to MSRs (both native and paravirtual). It
sometimes helps too, for example with a particular guest OS that does
not necessary check CPUID for bits that are always present on Apple
hardware...
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-28 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-26 23:58 GET_RNG_SEED hypercall ABI? (Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] random,x86,kvm: Rework arch RNG seeds and get some from kvm) Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-27 7:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-27 7:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-08-28 14:17 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-08-28 16:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-28 19:46 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-08-29 0:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-08-29 6:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
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