Avi Kivity wrote: > On 06/22/2009 04:19 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote: >> The question to ask is whether a guest can influence that condition. If >> they can, its an attack vector to crash the host. I suspect they can't, >> however. Therefore, your recommendation is perhaps a good approach so >> this condition cannot ever go unnoticed. Avi? >> > > No, this is host memory in the emulator context, allocated as unsigned > long. But this is on x86 which isn't sensitive to alignment anyway. Ok, will change to BUG_ON in v9 > It's unlikely that other achitectures will supply unaligned pointers. > Yeah, they shouldn't > We ought to convert the interface to pass a value anyway. > Agreed. As you said earlier, lets defer for now. Thanks Avi, -Greg
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