On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 08:06:36AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Connor Kite <[email protected]> writes:
>    # @memory-isolation: disable access from cryptodev to guest memory.
>    #     (default: false) (since 11.2)
> 
> Pardon my ignorance...  What exactly is "cryptodev" here?  Is it code
> running in another process?
> 
> Should the description answer my question?  Perhaps like this:
> 
>   # @memory-isolation: isolate guest memory.  Isolated guest memory
>   #     cannot be accessed from uh, what exactly?
> 
> Fill in the blank.

Maybe it's clearer to mention the potentially untrusted vhost-user
backend process rather than cryptodev (the virtio-crypto vhost-user
device)?

Stefan

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