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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Xen/mem_event: Do not rely on the toolstack being bug-free



At 14:10 +0100 on 17 Jul (1405602635), Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Xen performs insufficient validation of the contents of mem_event responses
> from the toolstack.  As a result, a buggy toolstack could cause Xen to walk
> off the end of a domain's vcpu list, and get out of sync with vcpu pause
> reference counts.
> 
> These two fixes are compile tested only, as I have no way to plausibly test
> the mem-event functionality itself.

Reviewed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>

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