Comment 21 for bug 705562

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Stefan Bader (smb) wrote :

So the why is clearer, just not the how. The crash happens because on releasing memory, there are pages with the foreign bit set (meaning those came from a special allocator). The code section in question is special to the xen patch and will take an element of the page structure as a function pointer of the destructor. This (0xc1b19960) is outside the in kernel addresses (maybe completely wrong) and causes a page fault on the instruction fetch.

Now the "only" thing left is to find out how this happens... Meanwhile, is there some reasonably easy way of triggering this at will?