[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] get_page_from_gfn() for foreign pages
> -----Original Message----- [snip] > >> And then you didn't really answer my question. > > > > Well, you can't revoke a grant whist a backend has it mapped... that's been > > a limitation forever. Also, I think it's reasonable that granting to a > > domain > > A allows domain A *and* any other domain with mapping privilege over > domain A > > to access that page. I don't think there's really any expectation in the > > grant interface that granting to only that domain... frontends have to trust > > backends and if the backend grants it on then so be it. That's certainly the > > level of trust that's been in place since v2 and AFAIK no-one is unhappy > about > > that. > > All true, but what you want to do here is a mapping outside of > what grant_table.c controls and provides. Yet for the page owner > to know when a grant is fine to revoke, such obtaining of extra > references would need to be tracked. > Ah yes, that's a bit gnarly. I'll have to try to figure out what can be done there. Paul _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
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