Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] XSA-226

2017-08-15 Thread Jan Beulich 
>>> On 15.08.17 at 16:08,  wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 August 2017 11:43:59 PM AEST Jan Beulich wrote:
>> XSA-226 went out with just a workaround patch. The pair of patches
>> here became ready too late to be reasonably included in the XSA.
>> Nevertheless they aim at fixing the underlying issues, ideally making
>> the workaround unnecessary.
>> 
>> 1: gnttab: don't use possibly unbounded tail calls
>> 2: gnttab: fix transitive grant handling
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 
> 
> If this turns out to be all good and accepted, is it possible to reissue 
> xsa226 with the proper fixes?

I think that would be likely to happen.

Jan


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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] XSA-226

2017-08-15 Thread Steven Haigh 
On Tuesday, 15 August 2017 11:43:59 PM AEST Jan Beulich wrote:
> XSA-226 went out with just a workaround patch. The pair of patches
> here became ready too late to be reasonably included in the XSA.
> Nevertheless they aim at fixing the underlying issues, ideally making
> the workaround unnecessary.
> 
> 1: gnttab: don't use possibly unbounded tail calls
> 2: gnttab: fix transitive grant handling
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 

If this turns out to be all good and accepted, is it possible to reissue 
xsa226 with the proper fixes?

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