Re: [PATCH 3/3] [RFC V3] KVM: X86: Adding skeleton for Memory ROE

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:40 PM Ahmed Abd El Mawgood
<ahmedsoliman0x666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch introduces a hypercall implemented for X86 that can assist
> against subset of kernel rootkits, it works by place readonly protection in
> shadow PTE. The end result protection is also kept in a bitmap for each
> kvm_memory_slot and is used as reference when updating SPTEs. The whole
> goal is to protect the guest kernel static data from modification if
> attacker is running from guest ring 0, for this reason there is no
> hypercall to revert effect of Memory ROE hypercall. This patch doesn't
> implement integrity check on guest TLB so obvious attack on the current
> implementation will involve guest virtual address -> guest physical
> address remapping, but there are plans to fix that.

Why are you implementing this in the kernel, instead of doing it in
host userspace?
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