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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xenpaging: clear page content after evict

To: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:33:29 +0100
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Olaf Hering writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] xenpaging: clear page content after 
evi> xenpaging: clear page content after evict
> 
> If the guest happens to read from the gfn while xenpaging is in the process of
> evicting the page, the guest may read zeros instead of actual data.
> Also if eviction fails the page content will be corrupted and xenpaging wont
> attempt to restore the page.

As far as the tools are concerned,

Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ian.

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