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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Subject: Re: kvmctl produces a segfault introduced by commit d8810ad3207e
 in kvm
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:43:14 +0200
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Guillaume Thouvenin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  On my computer (Intel Xeon) commit d8810ad3207e in kvm tree introduces
> a segfault when using kvmctl. 
> 
>  I'm using kvm commit d8810ad3207e and kvm-userspace commit
> d32aaf6d02d1. Everything works fine with kvm commit a78ebcb65fb7fc and
> kvm-userspace commit d32aaf6d02d1.
> 
>  Here is the problem:
> 
>  # ./user/kvmctl user/test/x86/simple.flat 
>  Segmentation fault
> 
>  Here is the message observed in kernel log:
> 
> kvmctl[12615]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000000000 sp 00007fffef5cd3a8
> error 4 in kvmctl[400000+8000]
> 
> It's the same with all .flat files. 

Confirmed, but I'm unfamiliar with this tool to see immediately what
goes wrong. Maybe just some missing initialization (try_push_nmi calls a
NULL callback).

However, I'm traveling later today and will look into this meanwhile.

Thanks for reporting,
Jan

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