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On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:40:16PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > And for what, to prevent
> > root from touching memory via dma that they can access in a million other
> > ways?
> 
> So one can be reasonably sure a kernel oops is not a result of a
> userspace bug.

Actually, I thought about this overnight, and  it should be possible to
drive it securely from userspace, without hypervisor changes.

See

https://mid.gmane.org/20151001104505-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com



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