linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] nSVM: use vmcb_save_area_cached in nested_vmcb_valid

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Date:   Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:14:15 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@...hat.com>,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] nSVM: use vmcb_save_area_cached in
 nested_vmcb_valid_sregs()

On 11/10/21 16:36, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> +
> +out_free_save:
> +	memset(&svm->nested.save, 0, sizeof(struct vmcb_save_area_cached));
> +

This memset is not strictly necessary, is it?  (Same for out_free_ctl 
later on).

Paolo