Re: [PATCH v8 12/18] KVM: SVM: Add support for static allocation of unified Page Encryption Bitmap.

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Sun Dec 06 2020 - 05:21:09 EST


On 04/12/20 22:38, Ashish Kalra wrote:
Earlier we used to dynamic resizing of the page encryption bitmap based
on the guest hypercall, but potentially a malicious guest can make a hypercall
which can trigger a really large memory allocation on the host side and may
eventually cause denial of service.

Hence now we don't do dynamic resizing of the page encryption bitmap as
per the hypercall and allocate it statically based on guest memory
allocation by walking through memslots and computing it's size.

I will add the above comment to the fresh series of the patch-set i am
going to post.

Sounds good, thanks. If there are no other changes I can include this in the commit message myself.

Paolo