Re: [PATCH] lguest: make sure cpu is initialized before accessing it

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Mon Mar 03 2008 - 19:20:34 EST


On Tuesday 04 March 2008 10:15:47 Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Sunday 10 February 2008 02:53:17 Eugene Teo wrote:
> > If req is LHREQ_INITIALIZE, and the guest has been initialized before
> > (unlikely), it will attempt to access cpu->tsk even though cpu is not yet
> > initialized.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Eugene, I've applied this with some wrapping of the comments and
removal of the now-redundant lg != NULL tests:

> > + /* Once the Guest is dead, all you can do is read() why it died. */
> > + if (lg && lg->dead)
> > + return -ENOENT;
> >
> > - /* If you're not the task which owns the Guest, you can only break */
> > - if (lg && current != cpu->tsk && req != LHREQ_BREAK)
> > - return -EPERM;
> > + /* If you're not the task which owns the Guest, you can only break */
> > + if (lg && current != cpu->tsk && req != LHREQ_BREAK)
> > + return -EPERM;
> > + }

Cheers,
Rusty.
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