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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: Should SEV-ES #VC use IST? (Re: [PATCH] Allow RDTSC and RDTSCP
 from userspace)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:13:55 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 04:39:26PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> P.S. did you also hear that with Rowhammer, userspace has a nonzero
> quantity of control over generating #MC, depending on how ECC is
> configured on the platform.

Where does that #MC point to? Can it control for which address to flip
the bits for, i.e., make the #MC appear it has been generated for an
address in kernel space?

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    Boris.

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