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SubjectRe: [RFC KVM 24/27] kvm/isolation: KVM page fault handler
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 7:39 AM Alexandre Chartre
<alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> The KVM page fault handler handles page fault occurring while using
> the KVM address space by switching to the kernel address space and
> retrying the access (except if the fault occurs while switching
> to the kernel address space). Processing of page faults occurring
> while using the kernel address space is unchanged.
>
> Page fault log is cleared when creating a vm so that page fault
> information doesn't persist when qemu is stopped and restarted.

Are you saying that a page fault will just exit isolation? This
completely defeats most of the security, right? Sure, it still helps
with side channels, but not with actual software bugs.

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