Re: [PATCH 6/7] KVM: x86: hyper-v: Make Hyper-V emulation enablement conditional

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On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Hyper-V emulation is enabled in KVM unconditionally. This is bad at least
> from security standpoint as it is an extra attack surface. Ideally, there
> should be a per-VM capability explicitly enabled by VMM but currently it

Would adding a module param buy us anything (other than complexity)?

> is not the case and we can't mandate one without breaking backwards
> compatibility. We can, however, check guest visible CPUIDs and only enable
> Hyper-V emulation when "Hv#1" interface was exposed in
> HYPERV_CPUID_INTERFACE.



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