From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
<david.vrabel@citrix.com>, <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: avoid NULL pointer dereference in dom0 on large machines
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 13:18:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F9A926.3060108@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424929925-18501-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>
On 26/02/15 05:52, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Using the pvops kernel a NULL pointer dereference was detected on a
> large machine (144 processors) when booting as dom0 in
> evtchn_fifo_unmask() during assignment of a pirq.
>
> The event channel in question was the first to need a new entry in
> event_array[] in events_fifo.c. Unfortunately xen_irq_info_pirq_setup()
> is called with evtchn being 0 for a new pirq and the real event channel
> number is assigned to the pirq only during __startup_pirq().
>
> It is mandatory to call xen_evtchn_port_setup() after assigning the
> event channel number to the pirq to make sure all memory needed for the
> event channel is allocated.
Applied to stable/for-linus-4.0 and tagged for stable, thanks.
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-06 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-26 5:52 [PATCH] xen: avoid NULL pointer dereference in dom0 on large machines Juergen Gross
2015-03-06 12:32 ` Juergen Gross
2015-03-06 13:18 ` David Vrabel [this message]
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