Re: [PATCH v4 20/31] i386/sev: Add support for SNP CPUID validation

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 6:10 AM Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> wrote:
> > So there are specific ranges that are checked, mainly ones where there
> > is potential for guests to misbehave if they are being lied to. But
> > hypervisor-ranges are paravirtual in a sense so there's no assumptions
> > being made about what the underlying hardware is doing, so the checks
> > are needed as much in those cases.
>
> I'm a little confused. Per your reference above, hypervisor-ranges is
> unchecked because it's not in the standard range nor the extended range.
>
> And your last sentence said "so the checks are needed as much in those
> cases". So how does hypervisor-ranges get checked?

I think "not" is missing in the sentence.

Paolo