Re: [Xen-devel] 100% reliable oops on Xen 4.1.3 (initially reported on 4.0.1)

[Peter Moody <pmoody@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Peter Moody <pmoody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Peter Moody <pmoody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Sure - the code in question wants to run with interrupts enabled,
>>> but they aren't for (I think) quite obvious a reason:
>>> arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S:auditsys_exit has hard STI/CLI in it,
>>> when those really should be ENABLE_INTERRUPTS() and
>>> DISABLE_INTERRUPTS() respectively. Does the below help?
>>
>> I'll test this when I get home tonight. This is for the guest kernel, right?
>
> I just tested on one of my previously crashing work machines and this
> looks good. Thanks again!

poor form to keep replying to myself here but, is this patch something
that would make it back into linus' tree from here or is there a more
appropriate forum where I should push this?

Cheers,
peter

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[ Peter Moody | Security Engineer | Google ]

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