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authorIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>2013-06-10 18:31:11 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-06-27 10:38:44 -0700
commit65f918123bd108a9b50bceaf4b32ac173b9e3f3e (patch)
tree7e3e3207ee50430dd6aa72a11ee81972e7f9ef9f /arch
parent5440f5d68b518339a9ee2fdc838c8caef19e36de (diff)
x86: kvmclock: zero initialize pvclock shared memory area
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@redhat.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@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 0732f0089a3d..1590a3a88b77 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;