linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Fix grant table bug

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Date:	Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:36:39 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Abd-El-Malek <mabdelmalek@....edu>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Fix grant table bug

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
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