Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:44:08 +0200 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/boot/compressed/64: Check SEV encryption in 64-bit boot-path |
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:33:12AM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote: > That doesn't feel like a big loss: if a malicious hypervisor wanted to > induce completely random code execution, it can do that anyway by just > messing with the guest-to-host translation, no?
Yes, but relying on defined behavior is still better. Undefined behavior could also mean it jumps to some other code which then leaks data.
Regards,
Joerg
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