Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: PPC: e500: fix allocation size error on g2h_tlb1_map

[Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>]

On 09/27/2012 06:35 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/27/2012 06:03 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:46:01AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> On 23.08.2012, at 03:04, Scott Wood wrote:
>>>
>>>> We were only allocating half the bytes we need, which was made more
>>>> obvious by a recent fix to the memset in  clear_tlb1_bitmap().
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood<scottwood@freescale.com>
>>> Thanks, applied to kvm-ppc-next.
>>>
>>> Avi, Marcelo, this one should get applied to anything currently -stable as it essentially means we could overrun an array that has been allocated too small. How do we do this?
>>>
>>>
>>> Alex
>> Apparently Avi prefers that patches are sent directly to the -stable
>> tree.
> We were discussing letting Greg honour Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> (currently he ignores them), not sending patches directly.
>
> We still haven't told him to do so, but Alex, you can go ahead and add
> the Cc: tag to the patch.

Sure, I can certainly do that :).

> Do you have the auto-autotest setup ready?  I guess we can do it
> manually until it is.

I do have a local autotest setup. Or what exactly are you referring to?


Alex