Article 5N44C [$] Hardening virtio

[$] Hardening virtio

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Traditionally, in virtualized environments, the host is trusted by itsguests, and mustprotect itself from potentially malicious guests. With initiativeslike confidential computing, this rule is extended in the other direction: theguest no longer trusts the host. This change of paradigm requiresadding boundary defenses in places where there have been none before.Recently, Andi Kleen submitted a patchset attempting to add the needed protections in virtio. The discussionthat resulted from this patch set highlighted the need to securevirtio for a wider range of use cases.
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