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authorMichael Abd-El-Malek <mabdelmalek@cmu.edu>2008-04-04 13:33:48 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-04 20:36:46 +0400
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xen: fix grant table bug
fix memory corruption and crash due to mis-sized grant table. A PV OS has two grant table data structures: the grant table itself and a free list. The free list is composed of an array of pages, which grow dynamically as the guest OS requires more grants. While the grant table contains 8-byte entries, the free list contains 4-byte entries. So we have half as many pages in the free list than in the grant table. There was a bug in the free list allocation code. The free list was indexed as if it was the same size as the grant table. But it's only half as large. So memory got corrupted, and I was seeing crashes in the slab allocator later on. Taken from: http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/4018c0da3360 Signed-off-by: Michael Abd-El-Malek <mabdelmalek@cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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