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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Jan 30 2020 - 07:06:29 EST


On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 01:59:59PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> 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

Oh wow, wonderful. Good that we have bisection in such cases - there's
no way in hell I'll debug it to that. ;-\

Thanks for saving me a bunch of time.

Damian, can you test the patch at the bottom of that mail:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202001300450.00U4ocvS083098@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

?

Thx.

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Boris.

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