linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: Initialize "ret" in sgx_ioc_enclave_add

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Date:   Wed, 2 Dec 2020 18:38:29 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: Initialize "ret" in sgx_ioc_enclave_add_pages()

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 06:22:00PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Initialize "ret" to zero as otherwise a zero length address range will
> leave it uninitialized.

That length is:

 * @length:     length of the data (multiple of the page size)

I think we wanna fail this even earlier when it wants to add data of
length 0 because that sounds nonsensical to me. Or is there some use
case for zero-length data?

Btw, pls CC lkml on patch submissions.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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