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* [PATCH 1/2] virtio-rng: fix boot with virtio-rng device
@ 2014-05-15 13:21 Sasha Levin
  2014-05-15 13:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] virtio-rng: fixes for device registration/unregistration Sasha Levin
  2014-05-16  2:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio-rng: fix boot with virtio-rng device Rusty Russell
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sasha Levin @ 2014-05-15 13:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: rusty; +Cc: mpm, herbert, linux-kernel, akong, Sasha Levin

Commit "virtio-rng: support multiple virtio-rng devices" has broken
boot with a virtio-rng device because the 'init' callback of the
virtio-rng device was left unitialized to garbage, and got called
by the hwrng infrastructure, killing the guest on boot.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
---

Also, do we really need multiple virtio-rng devices? I know it's
nice to have, but if there isn't a solid use-case behind it we're
just adding bugs to working code without any benefit.


 drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
index 12e242b..5b25daa 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static int probe_common(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	int err, i;
 	struct virtrng_info *vi = NULL;
 
-	vi = kmalloc(sizeof(struct virtrng_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+	vi = kzalloc(sizeof(struct virtrng_info), GFP_KERNEL);
 	vi->hwrng.name = kmalloc(40, GFP_KERNEL);
 	init_completion(&vi->have_data);
 
-- 
1.7.10.4


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