Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Ensure user_mem_abort() return value is initialised

[Marc Zyngier]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:24:42 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> If a change in the MMU notifier sequence number forces user_mem_abort()
> to return early when attempting to handle a stage-2 fault, we return
> uninitialised stack to kvm_handle_guest_abort(), which could potentially
> result in the injection of an external abort into the guest or a spurious
> return to userspace. Neither or these are what we want to do.
> 
> Initialise 'ret' to 0 in user_mem_abort() so that bailing due to a
> change in the MMU notrifier sequence number is treated as though the
> fault was handled.

Applied to next, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: Ensure user_mem_abort() return value is initialised
      commit: 84cd7df693f07df94d617049773f7c757a2b7847

Cheers,

	M.
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