From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
hch@infradead.org,
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
mingo <mingo@redhat.com>, bp <bp@alien8.de>,
hpa@zytor.com, x86 <x86@kernel.org>,
"Kenneth R. Crudup" <kenny@panix.com>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
jannh@google.com, keescook@chromium.org, David.Laight@aculab.com,
Doug Covelli <dcovelli@vmware.com>,
mhiramat@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86,module: Detect CRn and DRn manipulation
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 10:37:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200408083738.GO20713@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a263df2d-6dd7-83c1-baff-301625ef60a2@redhat.com>
On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 02:22:45AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 08/04/20 01:15, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >> Anyhow, I do not think it is the only use-case which is not covered by your
> >> patches (even considering CRs/DRs alone). For example, there is no kernel
> >> function to turn on CR4.VMXE, which is required to run hypervisors on x86.
> > How about taking this opportunity to see if there is a way to improve on
> > the status quo for co-existing hypervisor modules?
>
> Almost serious question: why? I can understand VMware, but why can't at
> least VirtualBox use KVM on Linux? I am not sure if they are still
> running device emulation in ring zero, but if so do you really want to
> do that these days?
Having had the 'joy' of looking at the virtual-puke^Wbox code recently,
nobody with half a hair of sense on their head will want to ever touch
that thing again.
It's a security nightmare, and that's the best part of it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-08 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-07 11:02 [PATCH 0/4] x86/module: Out-of-tree module decode and sanitize Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 11:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] module: Expose load_info to arch module loader code Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 16:52 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-07 11:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] module: Convert module_finalize() to load_info Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 16:53 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-07 11:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86,module: Detect VMX vs SLD conflicts Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 14:35 ` Greg KH
2020-04-07 14:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-07 14:55 ` Greg KH
2020-04-07 14:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-04-07 15:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 15:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-07 15:44 ` Greg KH
2020-04-07 16:51 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-04-07 17:16 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-04-07 23:59 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-04-08 7:25 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-04-07 18:26 ` kbuild test robot
2020-04-07 21:25 ` David Laight
2020-04-07 23:15 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-08 2:10 ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-04-08 8:09 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-04-08 9:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08 10:15 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-04-10 11:25 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-04-07 11:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86,module: Detect CRn and DRn manipulation Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 17:01 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-07 18:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 18:49 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-07 18:55 ` Nadav Amit
2020-04-07 19:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 20:27 ` Nadav Amit
2020-04-07 20:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 21:22 ` Nadav Amit
2020-04-07 21:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 22:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-07 23:51 ` Nadav Amit
2020-04-08 8:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08 5:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-07 23:15 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-04-08 0:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-08 8:37 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-04-08 9:52 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-04-07 21:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-04-08 5:58 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-04-08 8:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-08 8:58 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-04-08 9:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-08 10:45 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-04-08 8:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08 8:59 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-04-08 9:25 ` David Laight
2020-04-08 11:13 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-04-08 11:17 ` David Laight
2020-04-08 9:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08 10:50 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-04-08 13:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-04-08 15:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08 15:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-08 16:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-04-08 16:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-09 8:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-09 10:13 ` Nadav Amit
2020-04-09 21:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-04-09 22:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-04-10 5:37 ` Nadav Amit
2020-04-08 15:54 ` Jessica Yu
2020-04-07 17:23 ` [PATCH 0/4] x86/module: Out-of-tree module decode and sanitize Andrew Cooper
2020-04-07 19:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 20:11 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-04-07 20:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 21:21 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-04-07 20:21 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-04-07 20:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
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