From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] nvmx: check for shadow vmcs check on entry
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:16:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8599b66-a2b2-b27d-cfe4-95debb19a1ed@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1469053536-11130-5-git-send-email-bsd@redhat.com>
On 21/07/2016 00:25, Bandan Das wrote:
> vmentry should check whether the vmcs provided by
> the guest hypervisor is a shadow vmcs and fail.
How can this happen, since vmptrld checks the revision_id as you said below?
Paolo
> Also, vmptrld should check whether a shadow vmcs
> is being loaded by the guest without support being present
> but this check happens as part of checking the revision_id.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-21 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-20 22:25 [PATCH 0/4] vmx: miscellaneous cleanups Bandan Das
2016-07-20 22:25 ` [PATCH 1/4] nvmx: use warn_on for buggy cases when emulating invept/invvpid Bandan Das
2016-07-21 9:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-21 19:18 ` Bandan Das
2016-07-20 22:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] nvmx: mark ept single context invalidation as supported Bandan Das
2016-07-20 22:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] mmu: don't pass *kvm to spte_write_protect Bandan Das
2016-07-21 9:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-21 19:21 ` Bandan Das
2016-07-20 22:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] nvmx: check for shadow vmcs check on entry Bandan Das
2016-07-21 9:16 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-07-21 19:20 ` Bandan Das
2016-07-22 8:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-22 15:51 ` Bandan Das
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