From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:12:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1CB903.9000900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B1BC4EC.90704@web.de>
On 12/06/2009 04:51 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST returns -E2BIG when the provided space is too
> small for all MSRs. But this is precisely the error we trigger with the
> initial request in order to obtain that size. Do not fail in that case.
>
> This caused a subtle corruption of the guest state as MSR_STAR was not
> properly saved/restored. The corruption became visible with latest kvm
> optimizing the MSR updates.
>
I applied this to qemu-kvm since it missed 0.12-rc1.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-07 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-06 14:51 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star Jan Kiszka
2009-12-06 14:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [FOR 0.12][FOR 0.11][PATCH] " Jan Kiszka
2009-12-06 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] " Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 8:12 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-12-07 8:24 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-12-07 8:42 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 14:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-12-07 16:31 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-07 16:33 ` Anthony Liguori
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