[Xen-devel] Bug in CS 20073

[Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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().

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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