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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: arm: zero EL2 pagetable pages before use



Hi,

On 11/03/2016 18:29, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 10.03.16 at 23:00, <shankerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--- a/xen/arch/arm/mm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/mm.c
@@ -730,6 +730,7 @@ void __init setup_xenheap_mappings(unsigned long base_mfn,
          else
          {
              unsigned long first_mfn = alloc_boot_pages(1, 1);
+            memset(mfn_to_virt(first_mfn), 0, PAGE_SIZE);

If I was maintainer of this code, I would demand use of clear_page()
and ask for insertion of the missing blank line here (separating
declaration and statements).

+1


@@ -771,6 +772,7 @@ void __init setup_frametable_mappings(paddr_t ps, paddr_t 
pe)
      nr_second = frametable_size >> SECOND_SHIFT;
      second_base = alloc_boot_pages(nr_second, 1);
      second = mfn_to_virt(second_base);
+    memset(second, 0, nr_second * PAGE_SIZE);
      for ( i = 0; i < nr_second; i++ )
      {
          pte = mfn_to_xen_entry(second_base + i, WRITEALLOC);

Along those lines here - use clear_page(), presumably by moving it
into the loop.

+1

Regards,

--
Julien Grall

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