Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix IRQs inject to L2 which belong to L1 since race

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 04/07/2014 11:33, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
> The compiler is not aware of the fact that push/pop exists in this
> function and, thus, places the vmcs parameter on the stack without
> reserving the space. So the pushfq will overwrite the vmcs pointer and
> let the function fail.

Is that just a missing "memory" clobber?  push/pop clobbers memory.

Paolo
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