linux-kernel - [PATCH 060/105] x86: kvmclock: zero initialize pvclock shared memory area

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Message-Id: <1372445527-24414-61-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:51:22 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 060/105] x86: kvmclock: zero initialize pvclock shared memory area

3.8.13.4 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>

commit 07868fc6aaf57847b0f3a3d53086b7556eb83f4a upstream.

kernel might hung in pvclock_clocksource_read() due to
uninitialized memory might contain odd version value in
following cycle:

        do {
                version = __pvclock_read_cycles(src, &ret, &flags);
        } while ((src->version & 1) || version != src->version);

if secondary kvmclock is accessed before it's registered with kvm.

Clear garbage in pvclock shared memory area right after it's
allocated to avoid this issue.

Ref: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59521
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>
[See BZ for analysis.  We may want a different fix for 3.11, but
 this is the safest for now - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
index 5bedbdd..a855a2e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ void __init kvmclock_init(void)
 	if (!mem)
 		return;
 	hv_clock = __va(mem);
+	memset(hv_clock, 0, size);
 
 	if (kvm_register_clock("boot clock")) {
 		hv_clock = NULL;
-- 
1.8.1.2

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