Re: [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 13/26] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEV_INIT command

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Hi Boris,

thanks for the detail review.

On 09/13/2017 10:06 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
...

+static int sev_platform_get_state(int *state, int *error)
+{
+	int ret;
+	struct sev_data_status *data;
+
+	data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);

It's a bit silly to do the allocation only for the duration of
sev_platform_status() - just allocate "data" on the stack.


I am okay with moving it on the stack but just to give context why
I went in this way. The physical address of data is given to the
device (in this case SEV FW). I was not sure if its okay to pass the
stack address to the device. Additionally, the FW spec requires us to
zero all the fields -- so we need to memset if we allocate it on the
stack.




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