Re: Standardizing an MSR or other hypercall to get an RNG seed?

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On 09/19/2014 04:12 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> To force deterministic execution.
> 
> I incorrectly thought that the kernel could switch RDRAND on and off.
> It turns out that a hypervisor can do this, but not the kernel.  Also,
> determinism is lost anyway because of TSX, which *also* can't be
> turned on and off.
> 

Actually, a much bigger reason is because it lets rogue guest *user
space*, even will a well-behaved guest OS, do something potentially
harmful to the host.

	-hpa


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