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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Thomas DEBESSE <thomas.debesse@diocese-frejus-toulon.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: DomU: kernel BUG at arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:425
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:35:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F848BD.90205@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXJp7125WKwnAORGxfV-D4c+sLsfZzs4URNKoS4Zjc7efT=CQ@mail.gmail.com>


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On 15/09/15 17:28, Thomas DEBESSE wrote:
> 2015-09-15 18:09 GMT+02:00 Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
> <mailto:andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>>:
>
>     The instantiation of HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping() in
>     set_aliased_prot() has always been buggy in pvops kernels.
>
>     This bug should be fixed by c/s 0b0e55 "x86/xen: Probe target
>     addresses in set_aliased_prot before the hypercall" which is in
>     the process of being backported to #stable as a prerequisite for
>     the recent LDT CVE fixes.
>
>     ~Andrew
>
>
> OK thanks, I will stick with the 3.2 kernel for the moment, it seems
> to work with it.
> I don't know why, but only one vm seems to be affected (and they all
> are built the same way).

It will depend on userspace running in the VM as to whether the bug gets
tickled.

~Andrew

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-15 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-15 16:03 DomU: kernel BUG at arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:425 Thomas DEBESSE
2015-09-15 16:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-09-15 16:28   ` Thomas DEBESSE
2015-09-15 16:35     ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
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2013-03-08  2:23 James Sinclair
2013-03-08  8:38 ` Jan Beulich
     [not found]   ` <4A885B42-B352-4FE4-A0A7-2B10CF595E61@linode.com>
2013-03-12  7:45     ` Jan Beulich
2013-03-12 22:56       ` James Sinclair
2013-03-13  0:38         ` James Sinclair
2013-03-13  9:50         ` Ian Campbell
2013-03-18  0:27           ` James Sinclair

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