Re: [Xen-devel] xen-unstable warn_on in msi.c:636

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Olaf / Jan / all, what do you think of the attached patch, which
teaches the MSI code how to deal with 0 pbas?

 -George

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 30.06.11 at 11:17, Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> While hunting for a combination of hosts where I can reproduce a live
>> migration bug, I finally found a combination of hosts where it also fails
>> for me.
>>
>> Today I installed my xen-unstable package on the target host and got a
>> few warnings in msi.c. If they indicate a real issue, what other info is
>> needed from the system? Below is the xm dmesg and dmesg output.
>> The kernel is from SLES11-SP1.
>>
>> (XEN) Xen WARN at msi.c:636
>
> These are (from a functionality point of view harmless, as was
> discussed in an earlier thread), but point at a still existing security
> problem that the code in question fixes only partially. While just a
> few days ago I got to put together a partial patch to eliminate
> these warnings, there's some piece of information missing in the
> hypervisor, and I'll need some more time to figure out whether
> the information can be obtained safely by the hypervisor itself, or
> whether it needs to be passed down from Dom0.
>
> Jan
>
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