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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: s390: Return last valid slot if approx index is out-of-bounds
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    On 08/04/20 12:21, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
    > on s390 memory always starts at 0; you can't even boot a system missing
    > the first pages of physical memory, so this means this situation would
    > never happen in practice.
    >
    > of course, a malicious userspace program could create an (unbootable) VM
    > and trigger this bug, so the patch itself makes sense.
    >
    > Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>

    What about using KVM just for isolation and not just to run a full-blown
    OS (that is, you might even only have the guest run in problem state)?
    Would that be feasible on s390?

    Thanks,

    Paolo

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