linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 01/11] KVM: Capture VM start

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 7 Jan 2022 16:04:49 -0800
From:   Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
To:     Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>
Cc:     Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@...gle.com>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>,
        Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@...gle.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>,
        Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@...gle.com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 01/11] KVM: Capture VM start

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 3:43 PM Raghavendra Rao Ananta
<rananta@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Reiji,
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 10:07 PM Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Raghu,
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 11:49 AM Raghavendra Rao Ananta
> > <rananta@...gle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Capture the start of the KVM VM, which is basically the
> > > start of any vCPU run. This state of the VM is helpful
> > > in the upcoming patches to prevent user-space from
> > > configuring certain VM features after the VM has started
> > > running.

What about live migration, where the VM has already technically been
started before the first call to KVM_RUN?