microsoft / microsoft/litebox

Improve the safety and security of the Physical Pointer Abstraction

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Since Feb 5, 2026.

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Description

Physical pointer abstraction that the LVBS platform currently provides is unsafe. We should revisit its design. Also, we need to implement some other mechanisms to make it safe and secure including physical address range locking and page fault handler with `memcpy_fallible` #637

Related PR: #632

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