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xen/events: avoid NULL pointer dereference in dom0 on large machines
authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Thu, 26 Feb 2015 05:52:05 +0000 (06:52 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:06:56 +0000 (15:06 +0100)
commita5b8311fe0adc3d83b353c8e13899ea71bc51723
treeba692ddf6f360c8c231e7ff933a42338199ef35f
parent472cd1f6c9bfb48d5bab283dbf123837dd4e2cbb
xen/events: avoid NULL pointer dereference in dom0 on large machines

commit 85e40b0539b24518c8bdf63e2605c8522377d00f upstream.

Using the pvops kernel a NULL pointer dereference was detected on a
large machine (144 processors) when booting as dom0 in
evtchn_fifo_unmask() during assignment of a pirq.

The event channel in question was the first to need a new entry in
event_array[] in events_fifo.c. Unfortunately xen_irq_info_pirq_setup()
is called with evtchn being 0 for a new pirq and the real event channel
number is assigned to the pirq only during __startup_pirq().

It is mandatory to call xen_evtchn_port_setup() after assigning the
event channel number to the pirq to make sure all memory needed for the
event channel is allocated.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/xen/events/events_base.c