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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] KVM: MMU: fix permission_fault()
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On 30/03/2016 03:56, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>> x86/access.flat is currently using the "other" definition, i.e., PFEC.PK
>> is only set if W=1 or CR0.WP=0 && PFEC.U=0 or PFEC.W=0. Can you use it
>> (with ept=1 of course) to check what the processor is doing?
>
> Sure.
>
> And ept=1 is hard to trigger MMU issue, i am enabling PKEY on shadow
> MMU, let's see what will happen. ;)

No, don't do that!

ept=1 lets you test what the processor does. It means you cannot test
permission_fault(), but what we want here is just reverse engineering
the microcode. ept=1 lets you do exactly that.

Paolo

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