Re: kvm causing memory corruption? now 2.6.26

Avi Kivity
2008-07-17T05:38:43Z

Dave Hansen wrote:
> On a suggestion of Anthony's, I tried a defconfig kernel.
>
> It is now bombing out on an assertion in the lapic code:
>
> http://sr71.net/~dave/linux/2.6.26-oops1.txt
>
>
>

Well that assert is plain wrong:

static int apic_match_dest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_lapic *source,
int short_hand, int dest, int dest_mode)
{
int result = 0;
struct kvm_lapic *target = vcpu->arch.apic;

apic_debug("target %p, source %p, dest 0x%x, "
"dest_mode 0x%x, short_hand 0x%x",
target, source, dest, dest_mode, short_hand);

ASSERT(!target);

It should be ASSERT(target), if anything.

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