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



At 09:15 +0200 on 08 Oct (1318065333), Olaf Hering wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Remove page scrubbing from pager and do it after successful eviction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks. 

Tim.

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