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From: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 1.7] kvm: Fix uninitialized cpuid_data
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:54:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528D0569.3080308@weilnetz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131107111516.GB7513@redhat.com>

Am 07.11.2013 12:15, schrieb Gleb Natapov:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:35:27PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
>> This error was reported by valgrind when running qemu-system-x86_64
>> with kvm:
>>
>> ==975== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
>> ==975==    at 0x521C38: cpuid_find_entry (kvm.c:176)
>> ==975==    by 0x5235BA: kvm_arch_init_vcpu (kvm.c:686)
>> ==975==    by 0x4D5175: kvm_init_vcpu (kvm-all.c:267)
>> ==975==    by 0x45035B: qemu_kvm_cpu_thread_fn (cpus.c:858)
>> ==975==    by 0xD361E0D: start_thread (pthread_create.c:311)
>> ==975==    by 0xD65E9EC: clone (clone.S:113)
>> ==975==  Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation
>> ==975==    at 0x5226E4: kvm_arch_init_vcpu (kvm.c:446)
>>
>> Instead of adding more memset calls for parts of cpuid_data, the existing
>> calls were removed and cpuid_data is now initialized completely in one
>> call.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
> Applied, thanks.


Ping. This bug fix for KVM is still missing in QEMU 1.7.

Regards,
Stefan


      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-20 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-06 21:35 [PATCH for 1.7] kvm: Fix uninitialized cpuid_data Stefan Weil
2013-11-07 11:15 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-11-20 18:54   ` Stefan Weil [this message]

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