Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3 of 7] xen: allows more hypercalls from stubdoms

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefano Stabellini, le Mon 12 Oct 2009 19:14:11 +0100, a écrit :
> > In any case I would greately appreciate if all the other patches were
> > accepted in any case because I wouldn't want them to bitrot.
> >
> 
> BTW: it cannot be worse than opening /dev/mem O_RDWR in qemu-xen, that
> is exactly what happens at the moment.

Sure, but the difference is that qemu-xen is known to be run as root
in dom0, while allowing things from the hypervisor potentially hides
security leaks in its source code.

Samuel

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