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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Update cr3 in PAE mode when guest walk succeed but shadow walk fails
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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:51:32 -0400
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:09:20PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:

> domain is dying, and makes an ASSERT() to that effect.  So currently,
> in debug mode, this will cause the host to crash; in non-debug mode,
> this will cause a page-fault loop.

Isn't this a security hole then?

regards
john

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