From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCMiQ-000381-WA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:19:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCMiI-00035p-8W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:19:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48639 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCMiH-00035U-R1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:18:58 -0500 Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.44.156]:58478) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCMiH-0001uE-5j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:18:57 -0500 Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 3so1364341yxi.82 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:18:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4946E5DA.5050208@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:18:50 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH] Fix qemu crash with kvm enabled. References: <4946DD33.4070608@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4946DD33.4070608@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > If you see crashes after commit 6060, try this one ;) > > Not initializing msr_list.nmsrs before the KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST ioctl > will make the kernel fill too much data into msr_list, thereby > overflowing the stack and crashing the qemu. > I've applied that. Or at least I thoguht I did. Regards, Anthony Liguori > cheers, > Gerd >