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[Xen-devel] Re: Bug in CS 20073

To: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Bug in CS 20073
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:10:42 +0100
Cc: Xen <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
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On 21/08/2009 13:03, "Stephen Smalley" <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 17:02 +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
>> Looks like a lock normally taken with irqs disabled may be being taken with
>> irqs enabled. Which wouldn't be allowed but could be easy to fix.
> 
> This appears to have been introduced by CS 20073, x86:  Implement
> per-cpu vector for xen hypervisor.  It introduces mixed usage of
> spin_lock() and spin_lock_irqsave() on the vector_lock, whereas
> previously it was always spin_lock_irqsave().

Xiantao, Can you make a patch for this? Any acquisition of the lock where
irqs may not already be disabled must do spin_lock_irq or spin_lock_irqsave.

 -- Keir



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