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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/paravirt: Fix baremetal paravirt MSR ops
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:27:34 -0700
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>
>> ( We should double check that rdmsr()/wrmsr() results are never left
>>    uninitialized, but are set to zero or so, for cases where the return code is not
>>    checked. )
>
> It sure looks like native_read_msr_safe doesn't clear the output if
> the rdmsr fails.

I'd suggest to return some poison not just 0...
less likely to get interesting surprises that are insane hard to debug/diagnose