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The question is > not whether the assumption is justified or not (answering which > question seems to require nigh-incomprehensible exegesis of processor > documentation). > > The question is whether any guest does in fact make that assumption. > If any do, then there is a vulnerability. Whether that's a > vulnerability "in" Xen or "in" the guest is just a question of > finger-pointing. > > If none do then there is no vulnerability. I don't think any OS does, simply because they can't rely on such behavior when on on bare metal. The only such assumption was baked into the respective XTF test. If any OS made such an assumption, then I don't think it would be a vulnerability either. It would simply be a guest kernel bug then. Jan