From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: Fix grant table bug
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:36:39 -0700
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To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Michael Abd-El-Malek <mabdelmalek@cmu.edu>
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Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 23:42 -0400, Michael Abd-El-Malek wrote:
>
>   
>> There was a bug in the free list allocation code. The free list was indexed as 
>> if it was the same size as the grant table.  But it's only half as large.  So 
>> memory got corrupted, and I was seeing crashes in the slab allocator later on.
>>     
>
> Looks like an obvious candidate for upstream linux too. Rebased version
> below.
>   

Queued, thanks.

    J