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Re: [PATCH 4/4] nvmx: check for shadow vmcs check on entry

From Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 4/4] nvmx: check for shadow vmcs check on entry
Date 2016-07-21 11:20 +0200
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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.

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[PATCH 4/4] nvmx: check for shadow vmcs check on entry Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2016-07-21 00:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 4/4] nvmx: check for shadow vmcs check on entry Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-21 11:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 4/4] nvmx: check for shadow vmcs check on entry Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2016-07-21 21:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 4/4] nvmx: check for shadow vmcs check on entry Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-22 10:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 4/4] nvmx: check for shadow vmcs check on entry Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2016-07-22 18:00 +0200

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