[Lguest] [PATCH 4/5] lguest: use KVM hypercalls

Patrick McHardy kaber at trash.net
Tue Apr 14 21:55:01 EST 2009


Matias Zabaljauregui wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
> 
> On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:20 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>> which goes away by turning of CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR. Now it seems
>>> to work, but the host crashes before the guests are fully up somewhere
>>> in the tun-device. I couldn't capture the oops yet, but I'll try
>>> to fix it myself.
>> This was caused by a local change of mine to attach to existing
>> tun-devices, combined with a bug in the tun driver, which looks
>> like it was introduced by this patch:
>>
>> commit c70f182940f988448f3c12a209d18b1edc276e33
>> Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
>> Date:   Tue Jan 20 11:07:17 2009 +0000
>>
>>      tun: Fix races between tun_net_close and free_netdev.
>>
> 
> So, can we assume that everything is ok if we turn off STACK_PROTECTOR ?

 From a lguest perspective, yes.



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