This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
virtio_balloon: prevent uninitialized variable use
to the 4.9-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:
virtio_balloon-prevent-uninitialized-variable-use.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Dec 21 09:02:40 CET 2017
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:46:59 +0200
Subject: virtio_balloon: prevent uninitialized variable use
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit f0bb2d50dfcc519f06f901aac88502be6ff1df2c ]
The latest gcc-7.0.1 snapshot reports a new warning:
virtio/virtio_balloon.c: In function 'update_balloon_stats':
virtio/virtio_balloon.c:258:26: error: 'events[2]' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
virtio/virtio_balloon.c:260:26: error: 'events[3]' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
virtio/virtio_balloon.c:261:56: error: 'events[18]' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
virtio/virtio_balloon.c:262:56: error: 'events[17]' is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
This seems absolutely right, so we should add an extra check to
prevent copying uninitialized stack data into the statistics.
>From all I can tell, this has been broken since the statistics code
was originally added in 2.6.34.
Fixes: 9564e138b1f6 ("virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V4)")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek <lprosek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -253,12 +253,14 @@ static unsigned int update_balloon_stats
available = si_mem_available();
+#ifdef CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN,
pages_to_bytes(events[PSWPIN]));
update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_OUT,
pages_to_bytes(events[PSWPOUT]));
update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MAJFLT, events[PGMAJFAULT]);
update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MINFLT, events[PGFAULT]);
+#endif
update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMFREE,
pages_to_bytes(i.freeram));
update_stat(vb, idx++, VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_MEMTOT,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/hwmon-asus_atk0110-fix-uninitialized-data-access.patch
queue-4.9/bna-avoid-writing-uninitialized-data-into-hw-registers.patch
queue-4.9/virtio-balloon-use-actual-number-of-stats-for-stats-queue-buffers.patch
queue-4.9/virtio_balloon-prevent-uninitialized-variable-use.patch
queue-4.9/isdn-kcapi-avoid-uninitialized-data.patch