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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] x86: guest_walk_tables() should check invalid bi

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] x86: guest_walk_tables() should check invalid bits on large page entries
From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 10:49:30 +0100
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At 09:11 +0100 on 28 Mar (1301303519), Jan Beulich wrote:
> The PSE handling doesn't check bits 1...8 (or 1...9 for non-PAE guests)
> being zero, thus allowing bad (not 2Mb/4Mb aligned) large pages to be
> handled.

Applied; thank you.

Tim.

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Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

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