On 1/13/21 6:36 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Zero out the array of VMCB pointers so that pre_sev_run() won't see
> garbage when querying the array to detect when an SEV ASID is being
> associated with a new VMCB.  In practice, reading random values is all
> but guaranteed to be benign as a false negative (which is extremely
> unlikely on its own) can only happen on CPU0 on the first VMRUN and would
> only cause KVM to skip the ASID flush.  For anything bad to happen, a
> previous instance of KVM would have to exit without flushing the ASID,
> _and_ KVM would have to not flush the ASID at any time while building the
> new SEV guest.
>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
> Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.si...@amd.com>
> Fixes: 70cd94e60c73 ("KVM: SVM: VMRUN should use associated ASID when SEV is 
> enabled")
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> index 7ef171790d02..ccf52c5531fb 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ static int svm_cpu_init(int cpu)
>       if (svm_sev_enabled()) {
>               sd->sev_vmcbs = kmalloc_array(max_sev_asid + 1,
>                                             sizeof(void *),
> -                                           GFP_KERNEL);
> +                                           GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
>               if (!sd->sev_vmcbs)
>                       goto free_save_area;
>       }


Reviewed-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.si...@amd.com>


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