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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: Initialize "ret" in sgx_ioc_enclave_add_pages()
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 18:38:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201202173829.GG2951@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201202162200.88941-1-jarkko@kernel.org>

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 06:22:00PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Initialize "ret" to zero as otherwise a zero length address range will
> leave it uninitialized.

That length is:

 * @length:     length of the data (multiple of the page size)

I think we wanna fail this even earlier when it wants to add data of
length 0 because that sounds nonsensical to me. Or is there some use
case for zero-length data?

Btw, pls CC lkml on patch submissions.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-02 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-02 16:22 [PATCH] x86/sgx: Initialize "ret" in sgx_ioc_enclave_add_pages() Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-12-02 17:38 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-12-03 18:24   ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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