Re: KVM/KGDB integration

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Wed Nov 27 2013 - 05:08:50 EST


Copying KGDB maintainer to get some feedback.

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:53:28PM +0200, Dan Aloni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The following two patches address an integration issue between KVM and
> KGDB. The issue described in the patches can be triggered with vanilla
> kernels that enable KGDB and KVM together on x86 (more specifically,
> we bump into this with Fedora's 3.11 kernel from FC19).
>
> On a kernel enabled with KGDB, running with kvm-unit-tests should
> reproduce the issue. On VM hosts servers where an admin accidently
> left an active KGDB, and unprivilged guest might be able to bring
> the host down.
>
> Patches apply to linux-next and earlier kernels.

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Gleb.
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