Re: [GIT PULL] x86/asm changes for v5.6

[Mike Rapoport]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 12:53:26PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 01:10:57PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > It seems that this a random boot crash caused by 987f028b8637cfa7 ("char:
> > hpet: Use flexible-array member") and fix is on the way:
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202001300450.00U4ocvS083098@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Hmm, I don't see the connection at a first glance except that both stack
> traces lead somewhere down the bowels of k*alloc...

I've seen similar crash with my qemu/kvm and bisected it to that commit.

The hpet allocation is off-by-one and as a result hpet corrupts the memory
somewhere in the slab
 
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Sincerely yours,
Mike.