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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] KVM: nSVM: Fix L1 state corruption upon return from SMM
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On 23/06/21 09:44, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> - RFC: I'm not 100% sure my 'smart' idea to use currently-unused HSAVE area
> is that smart. Also, we don't even seem to check that L1 set it up upon
> nested VMRUN so hypervisors which don't do that may remain broken. A very
> much needed selftest is also missing.

It's certainly a bit weird, but I guess it counts as smart too. It
needs a few more comments, but I think it's a good solution.

One could delay the backwards memcpy until vmexit time, but that would
require a new flag so it's not worth it for what is a pretty rare and
already expensive case.

Paolo

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