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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@iki.fi>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
	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: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 20:24:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201203182454.GA123023@kapsi.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201202173829.GG2951@zn.tnic>

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 06:38:29PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, makes sense to fail right after copying the parameter struct
with -EINVAL.

> Thx.
> 
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
> 
> https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
> 

/Jarkko

      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 18:26 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
2020-12-03 18:24   ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]

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