Re: [PATCH 4/4] xen/pcifront: Fix mysterious crashes when NUMA locality information was extracted.

From	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 4/4] xen/pcifront: Fix mysterious crashes when NUMA locality information was extracted.
Date	2016-02-14 02:30 +0100
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On 02/11/2016 04:10 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>
> This patch fixes the issue by:
>   1) Use kzalloc to initialize to a well known state.
>   2) Put 'struct pci_sysdata' at the start of 'pcifront_sd'. That
>      way access to the 'node' will access the right offset.
>
> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

(This, btw, is the second time we got bitten by pcifront_sd bit not 
being pci_sysdata. dc4fdaf0e48 was a workaround for a similar problem 
and we should have fixed it then).

-boris

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