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Re: [Xen-devel] domU crashing Xen

To: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] domU crashing Xen
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:34:18 +0100
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
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On 12/10/06 07:26, "Chris Wright" <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Haven't worked out exactly what's causing the bug, but in testing the
> pv_ops tree against current Xen (11736:f7d65fb7299b) I can reliably
> crash Xen with the following trace, caused by:
> 
> arch/x86/traps.c::handle_gdt_ldt_mapping_fault()
>     ...
>     /* Should never fault in another vcpu's area. */
>     BUG_ON(vcpu_area != current->vcpu_id);

The shadow-refcount code is quite fresh. We should confirm this isn't
exploitable by ordinary PV guests though.

 -- Keir



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