Re: [PATCH] kvm: fix poison overwritten caused by using wrong xstate size

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 On 08/13/2010 10:19 AM, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
fpu.state is allocated from task_xstate_cachep, the size of task_xstate_cachep
is xstate_size. xstate_size is set from cpuid instruction, which is often
smaller than sizeof(struct xsave_struct). kvm is using sizeof(struct xsave_struct)
to fill in/out fpu.state.xsave, as what we allocated for fpu.state is
xstate_size, kernel will write out of memory and caused poison/redzone/padding
overwritten warnings.

Thanks, applied.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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