On Wed, January 10, 2018 10:21 pm, Vít Šesták wrote:
> Meltdown can be mitigated by using HVM/PVH. If you look at the XSA, they
> also have prepared PV-in-PVH mode that mitigates it also for PVs. (This

I pointed this one out too last week, sounds interesting.

> probably won't work for CPUs without VT-x/AMD-v, but those are rare
> today. It also probably won't work for VMs with PCI devices if system
> does not support IOMMU (AKA VT-d), but in this case, you are already
> doomed due to DMA attacks.) So, Meltdown seems to be easily mitigated, it
> is just matter of time.
>
> It seems that PV-in-PVH is going to fix some other issues. IIUC, it
> should mitigate all PV-specific vulnerabilities and even bring PVH for
> stubdoms, which sounds as a nice side effect of Meltdown fix.

Agreed.

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