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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: Fix build warnings
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 12:26:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110531102655.GC24172@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE4A4E7.80503@redhat.com>


* Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 05/31/2011 10:38 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >* Borislav Petkov<bp@alien8.de>  wrote:
> >
> >>  +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> >>  @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static int FNAME(walk_addr_generic)(struct guest_walker *walker,
> >>   				gva_t addr, u32 access)
> >>   {
> >>   	pt_element_t pte;
> >>  -	pt_element_t __user *ptep_user;
> >>  +	pt_element_t __user *uninitialized_var(ptep_user);
> >
> >Note that doing this is actually actively dangerous for two reasons.
> >
> >
> 
> <snip lots of good advice>
> 
> > Please fix it instead.
> 
> s/instead/in addition/; while all those changes are good, they are 
> much too large for 3.0.  Let's push the simple fix for 3.0 and 
> queue the bigger refactoring to 3.1.

Yeah, that's probably wise, this is a tricky function.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-31 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30  9:46 KVM build warnings Borislav Petkov
2011-05-30 10:14 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2011-05-30 12:46   ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-30 20:11     ` [PATCH] kvm: Fix " Borislav Petkov
2011-05-31  7:38       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31  8:19         ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2011-05-31  8:20         ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-31  9:02           ` Borislav Petkov
2011-05-31 10:26           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-06-07  7:28             ` Borislav Petkov
2011-06-07  7:58               ` Avi Kivity

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