Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: Initialize "ret" in sgx_ioc_enclave_add_pages()

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Thu Dec 03 2020 - 13:25:43 EST


On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 06:38:29PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 06:22:00PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Initialize "ret" to zero as otherwise a zero length address range will
> > leave it uninitialized.
>
> That length is:
>
> * @length: length of the data (multiple of the page size)
>
> I think we wanna fail this even earlier when it wants to add data of
> length 0 because that sounds nonsensical to me. Or is there some use
> case for zero-length data?
>
> Btw, pls CC lkml on patch submissions.

Yeah, makes sense to fail right after copying the parameter struct
with -EINVAL.

> Thx.
>
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> Boris.
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/Jarkko