[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] VPMU backports for 4.6
On 01/20/2016 12:13 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 20.01.16 at 17:12, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:There two patches need to be backported to 4.6 fb424bf x86/VPMU: don't allow any non-zero writes to MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE 31af0d7 x86/VPMU: check more carefully which bits are allowed to be written to MSRs"Need to be" is pretty strong for an unsupported subsystem. In fact I had already considered those and then decided not to take them. So with you asking for them I'm not really sure what to do... "Need to" may indeed have been a bit too much.Since there is a potential for crashing the hypervisor I think we should have those two in 4.6, even if we don't officially support VPMU. (As a side --- XSA-163 says that VPMU is "unsupported security-wise". Do we make any distinction between a feature being generally or security-wise unsupported?) -boris _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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