linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kvm: don't take vcpu mutex for obviously invalid vcpu ioctls

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Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:29:19 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: don't take vcpu mutex for obviously invalid vcpu
 ioctls

Il 22/09/2014 21:20, Christian Borntraeger ha scritto:
> "while using trinity to fuzz KVM, we noticed long stalls on invalid ioctls. Lets bail out early on invalid ioctls". or similar?

Okay.  David, can you explain how you found it so that I can make up my
mind?

Gleb and Marcelo, a fourth and fifth opinion? :)

Paolo
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