Re: [PATCH] block: Clear kernel memory before copying to user

[Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 07:10:58PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> I guess the issue may depend on specific QEMU version, just tried the test over
> virtio-scsi/sata/usb-storage emulated via qemu-2.10.2-1.fc27, not observed
> this problem.

I actually didn't use virtio-scsi, but it really doesn't matter.

FWIW, this is what I ran:

  # qemu-system-x86_64 --version
  QEMU emulator version 2.10.2(qemu-2.10.2-1.fc27)

  # qemu-system-x86_64 -m 192 -smp 2 -enable-kvm -display none -snapshot \
    -hda /mnt/images/fedora-27.img  -nographic \
    -append "console=tty0 console=ttyS0 root=/dav/sda rw" \
    -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.18.10-100.fc27.x86_64 \
    -initrd /boot/initramfs-4.18.10-100.fc27.x86_64.img

The file "fedora-27.img" is just a filesystem image of a minimal mock
setup from /var/lib/mock/fedora-27-x86_64/root/.

A small memory size makes it easier to observe, otherwise your probability
of allocating unclean pages lowers. That's really the only reason I used
qemu since all my real machines have too much memory that I never come
close to using, making observations more random.