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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.0.0x allows for data corruption in Dom0



>>> "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> 09.03.10 10:37 >>>
>How about these being vcpu_time_info structures? The fields
>appear to all make sense. The only thing not matching this would
>be a few differently looking corruption entries sent earlier by Joanna,
>so this may not be the only thing. But it would explain why with 3.4.2
>the issue is not present.

In particular I think the update_vcpu_system_time() invocation 
in schedule() isn't right - VCPUOP_register_vcpu_time_memory_area
taking a virtual address, this call must not happen before
context_switch().

And btw., 32-on-64 also seems to be broken for
VCPUOP_register_vcpu_time_memory_area (since 64-bit Xen reads
the full 64-bit field).

Jan


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