From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759081AbYDCOho (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:37:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757475AbYDCOhh (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:37:37 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:38615 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757402AbYDCOhg (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:37:36 -0400 Message-ID: <47F4EB77.1010304@goop.org> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:36:39 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080315) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark McLoughlin CC: Ingo Molnar , xen-devel , linux-kernel , Michael Abd-El-Malek Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Fix grant table bug References: <47F05DB1.5090606@cmu.edu> <1207229210.29720.11.camel@muff> In-Reply-To: <1207229210.29720.11.camel@muff> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 23:42 -0400, Michael Abd-El-Malek wrote: > > >> There was a bug in the free list allocation code. The free list was indexed as >> if it was the same size as the grant table. But it's only half as large. So >> memory got corrupted, and I was seeing crashes in the slab allocator later on. >> > > Looks like an obvious candidate for upstream linux too. Rebased version > below. > Queued, thanks. J