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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, jgross@suse.com,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] xen/x86/vpmu: Zero struct pt_regs before calling into sample handling code
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:27:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1531416420-3580-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> (raw)

Otherwise we may leak kernel stack for events that sample user
registers.

Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/x86/xen/pmu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/pmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/pmu.c
index 7d00d4a..95997e6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/pmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/pmu.c
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ static void xen_convert_regs(const struct xen_pmu_regs *xen_regs,
 irqreturn_t xen_pmu_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
 {
 	int err, ret = IRQ_NONE;
-	struct pt_regs regs;
+	struct pt_regs regs = {0};
 	const struct xen_pmu_data *xenpmu_data = get_xenpmu_data();
 	uint8_t xenpmu_flags = get_xenpmu_flags();
 
-- 
1.8.3.1


             reply	other threads:[~2018-07-12 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-12 17:27 Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2018-07-13  8:41 ` Juergen Gross
2018-09-20 16:57   ` Boris Ostrovsky

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