[PULL 60/61] accel/kvm: Zero out mem explicitly in kvm_set_user_memory_region()

Paolo Bonzini posted 61 patches 2 weeks, 1 day ago
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[PULL 60/61] accel/kvm: Zero out mem explicitly in kvm_set_user_memory_region()
Posted by Paolo Bonzini 2 weeks, 1 day ago
From: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>

Zero out the entire mem explicitly before it's used, to ensure the unused
feilds (pad1, pad2) are all zeros. Otherwise, it might cause problem when
the pad fields are extended by future KVM.

Fixes: ce5a983233b4 ("kvm: Enable KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 for memslot")
Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250728115707.1374614-3-xiaoyao.li@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 accel/kvm/kvm-all.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
index 633b72bde2d..72b571a6972 100644
--- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
+++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ int kvm_physical_memory_addr_from_host(KVMState *s, void *ram,
 static int kvm_set_user_memory_region(KVMMemoryListener *kml, KVMSlot *slot, bool new)
 {
     KVMState *s = kvm_state;
-    struct kvm_userspace_memory_region2 mem;
+    struct kvm_userspace_memory_region2 mem = {};
     int ret;
 
     mem.slot = slot->slot | (kml->as_id << 16);
-- 
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