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authorIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>2013-06-10 18:31:11 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2013-06-19 12:25:28 +0200
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x86: kvmclock: zero initialize pvclock shared memory area
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@redhat.com> [See BZ for analysis. We may want a different fix for 3.11, but this is the safest for now - Paolo] Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.8 Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
index d2c381280e3c..3dd37ebd591b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ 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;