On Saturday 11 April 2009 17:48:04 Jan Kiszka wrote: > This nice little buglet complicates a smarter slot management in qemu > user space just "slightly". Sigh... > > --------> > > When checking for overlapping slots on registration of a new one, kvm > currently also considers zero-length (ie. deleted) slots and rejects > requests incorrectly. This finally denies user space from joining slots. > Fix the check by skipping deleted slots. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c > index 363af32..18f06d2 100644 > --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c > +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c > @@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, > for (i = 0; i < KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS; ++i) { > struct kvm_memory_slot *s = &kvm->memslots[i]; > > - if (s == memslot) > + if (s == memslot || !s->npages) > continue; > if (!((base_gfn + npages <= s->base_gfn) || > (base_gfn >= s->base_gfn + s->npages))) Is it necessary to preserve a valid base_gfn/flags/etc for a zeroed slot? Seems kvm_free_physmem_slot didn't clean them. -- regards Yang, Sheng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html