[Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/8] x86/traps: Avoid using current too early on boot

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Early on boot, current has the sentinel value 0xfffff000.  Blindly using it in
show_registers() causes a nested failure and no useful information printed
from an early crash.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
---
 xen/arch/x86/x86_64/traps.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/traps.c b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/traps.c
index 117a133..61bd053 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/traps.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/traps.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ void show_registers(const struct cpu_user_regs *regs)
     struct cpu_user_regs fault_regs = *regs;
     unsigned long fault_crs[8];
     enum context context;
-    struct vcpu *v = current;
+    struct vcpu *v = system_state >= SYS_STATE_smp_boot ? current : NULL;
 
     if ( guest_mode(regs) && has_hvm_container_vcpu(v) )
     {
-- 
1.7.10.4


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