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authorBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>2014-07-09 13:18:18 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-08-07 14:30:27 -0700
commitd12cb4b5cd29230b0def8c8fec29f59c33592a46 (patch)
tree10bc194702ed3dd25dbe22b042637cca04b3c86f /Makefile
parent81513d14716eb555b443e7e2e2b862f094f8b731 (diff)
x86/espfix/xen: Fix allocation of pages for paravirt page tables
commit 8762e5092828c4dc0f49da5a47a644c670df77f3 upstream. init_espfix_ap() is currently off by one level when informing hypervisor that allocated pages will be used for ministacks' page tables. The most immediate effect of this on a PV guest is that if 'stack_page = __get_free_page()' returns a non-zeroed-out page the hypervisor will refuse to use it for a page table (which it shouldn't be anyway). This will result in warnings by both Xen and Linux. More importantly, a subsequent write to that page (again, by a PV guest) is likely to result in fatal page fault. Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404926298-5565-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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