On Oct 6, 2014, at 11:50 PM, Radim Krčmář <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2014-10-03 01:10+0300, Nadav Amit:
>> Once an instruction crosses a page boundary, the size read from the second 
>> page
>> disregards the common case that part of the operand resides on the first 
>> page.
>> As a result, fetch of long insturctions may fail, and thereby cause the
>> decoding to fail as well.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
>> ---
> 
> Good catch, was it thanks to an exhaustive test-suite?
> 
> Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>

It was catcher in a test-environment. However, I keep wondering how it did not 
happen in real guest OS.
I think it is due to pure luck, so I recommend to put it in -stable.

Nadav--
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