Re: 5.7.0 / BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference / setup_cpu_watcher

From: Christian Kujau
Date: Fri Jun 05 2020 - 18:21:59 EST


On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> PVH domains don't have the emulated platform device, so Linux will be
> finding ~0 when it goes looking in config space.
>
> The diagnostic should be skipped in that case, to avoid giving the false
> impression that something is wrong.

Understood, thanks for explaining that. I won't be able to edit
arch/x86/xen/platform-pci-unplug.c to fix that though :-\

Christian.
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