linux-kernel - Re: DomU crashes during xenfb initialization

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Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:09:22 +0200
From:	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DomU crashes during xenfb initialization

Dne Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:40:59 +0200 Michal Schmidt napsal:
> So it crashes during Xen framebuffer initialization. And indeed,
> disabling CONFIG_XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND helps, the kernel then boots fine.
> 
> I git-bisected it and found that the bug was introduced by this
> commit: commit ced40d0f3e8833bb8d7d8e2cbfac7da0bf7008c4
> Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
> Date:   Fri Feb 6 14:09:44 2009 -0800
> 
>     xen: pack all irq-related info together

It's not this commit's fault. It just uncovered a latent bug.
info->irq is -1 in xenfb_send_event(), so it calls
notify_remote_via_irq(-1) which then dereferences out-of-array memory.

Michal
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