This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vdpa_sim_blk: allocate the buffer zeroed
to the 6.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
vdpa_sim_blk-allocate-the-buffer-zeroed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 14ed877d7f0b4c57bb65ac73905c5aeb24f6f3b7
Author: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 31 15:43:39 2023 +0100
vdpa_sim_blk: allocate the buffer zeroed
[ Upstream commit 0d82410252ea324f0064e75b9865bb74cccc1dda ]
Deleting and recreating a device can lead to having the same
content as the old device, so let's always allocate buffers
completely zeroed out.
Fixes: abebb16254b3 ("vdpa_sim_blk: support shared backend")
Suggested-by: Qing Wang <qinwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <20231031144339.121453-1-sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_blk.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_blk.c
index b3a3cb1657955..b137f36793439 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_blk.c
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ static int vdpasim_blk_dev_add(struct vdpa_mgmt_dev *mdev, const char *name,
if (blk->shared_backend) {
blk->buffer = shared_buffer;
} else {
- blk->buffer = kvmalloc(VDPASIM_BLK_CAPACITY << SECTOR_SHIFT,
+ blk->buffer = kvzalloc(VDPASIM_BLK_CAPACITY << SECTOR_SHIFT,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!blk->buffer) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ static int __init vdpasim_blk_init(void)
goto parent_err;
if (shared_backend) {
- shared_buffer = kvmalloc(VDPASIM_BLK_CAPACITY << SECTOR_SHIFT,
+ shared_buffer = kvzalloc(VDPASIM_BLK_CAPACITY << SECTOR_SHIFT,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!shared_buffer) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
