linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] virtio/console: Add a failback for unstealable pipe buffer

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Date:	Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:35:32 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>,
	Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@...achi.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	"Franch Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] virtio/console: Add a failback for unstealable
 pipe buffer

On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 18:24 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:

> Yeah, it is really easy to fix that.
> But out of curiosity, would that be really a problem?
> I guess that host can access any guest page if need. If that
> is right, is that really insecure to leak randomly allocated
> unused page to the host?

Yeah, it's like protecting userspace pages from the kernel ;-)

-- Steve


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