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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:31:28 +0200
From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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To: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Emulate VMXON region correctly
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On 2014-04-28 07:00, Bandan Das wrote:
> Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54521
> 
> The vmxon region is unused by nvmx, but adding these checks
> are probably harmless and may detect buggy L1 hypervisors in 
> the future!

Nice and welcome! Will you provide unit tests for these cases as well?

Jan

> 
> Bandan Das (3):
>   KVM: nVMX: rearrange get_vmx_mem_address
>   KVM: nVMX: additional checks on vmxon region
>   KVM: nVMX: fail on invalid vmclear/vmptrld pointer
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 171 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 118 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
> 

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