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.