Re: [PATCH 3/9] KVM: SVM: Don't intercept #GP for SEV guests

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Jan 20 2022 - 11:55:18 EST


On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, Liam Merwick wrote:
> On 20/01/2022 01:07, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Never intercept #GP for SEV guests as reading SEV guest private memory
> > will return cyphertext, i.e. emulating on #GP can't work as intended.
> >
>
> "ciphertext" seems to be the convention.

Huh, indeed it does seem to be way more common, and cipher is the proper root.
Stupid English, why can't we have encrypt+cypher or encript+cipher?

Thanks! I'll get these fixed.