[RFC PATCH v3 0/5] Hypervisor-Enforced Kernel Integrity - CR pinning

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Fri May 3 13:49:47 UTC 2024


On Fri, May 03, 2024, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patch series implements control-register (CR) pinning for KVM and
> provides an hypervisor-agnostic API to protect guests.  It includes the
> guest interface, the host interface, and the KVM implementation.
> 
> It's not ready for mainline yet (see the current limitations), but we
> think the overall design and interfaces are good and we'd like to have
> some feedback on that.

...

> # Current limitations
> 
> This patch series doesn't handle VM reboot, kexec, nor hybernate yet.
> We'd like to leverage the realated feature from KVM CR-pinning patch
> series [3].  Help appreciated!

Until you have a story for those scenarios, I don't expect you'll get a lot of
valuable feedback, or much feedback at all.  They were the hot topic for KVM CR
pinning, and they'll likely be the hot topic now.



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