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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/10] xen/pvh: Fix PVHVM 32-bit bootup problems.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> With the split of the 'unsigned int space' in a 'u16 space'
> and 'u16 foreign_domid' in xen_add_to_physmap the compiler
> won't write the full 32-bit value in 'space'. Instead
> it will write a 16-bit value - which is OK. The problem
> is that we allocate the xen_add_to_physmap structure from
> the stack which can (and it has) various garbage on it.
>
> The end result is that without this patch we end up
> providing this to the hypervisor:
>
> xatp.space = 0xc1310001;
> instead of:
> xatp.space = 0x1;
>
> Forcing the foreign_domid to 0, will over-write the garbage
> that was on the stack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Good fix.


> arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 1 +
> drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> index e3497f2..b679f86 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> @@ -1509,6 +1509,7 @@ void __ref xen_hvm_init_shared_info(void)
> xatp.domid = DOMID_SELF;
> xatp.idx = 0;
> xatp.space = XENMAPSPACE_shared_info;
> + xatp.foreign_domid = 0;
> xatp.gpfn = __pa(shared_info_page) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> if (HYPERVISOR_memory_op(XENMEM_add_to_physmap, &xatp))
> BUG();
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> index b2b0a37..cbfd929 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> @@ -1044,6 +1044,7 @@ static int gnttab_map(unsigned int start_idx, unsigned int end_idx)
> do {
> xatp.domid = DOMID_SELF;
> xatp.idx = i;
> + xatp.foreign_domid = 0;
> xatp.space = XENMAPSPACE_grant_table;
> xatp.gpfn = (xen_hvm_resume_frames >> PAGE_SHIFT) + i;
> rc = HYPERVISOR_memory_op(XENMEM_add_to_physmap, &xatp);
> --
> 1.7.7.6
>


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