Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kernel: Initialize load_tm on task creation
From: Daniel Axtens <hidden>
Date: 2017-06-05 22:52:35
Hi Breno, Looks good to me.
Currently tsk->thread.load_tm is not initialized in the task creation and can contain garbage on a new task. This is an undesired behaviour, since it affects the timing to enable and disable the transactional memory laziness (disabling and enabling the MSR TM bit, which affects TM reclaim and recheckpoint in the scheduling process).
Is there any chance this uninitialised memory will leak something interesting/sensitive? (Therefore, should this go to stable?) Regards, Daniel
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CC: Anton Blanchard <redacted> Fixes: 5d176f751ee3c6eededd984ad409bff201f436a7 Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c index a9435397eab8..2ad725ef4368 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c@@ -1687,6 +1687,7 @@ void start_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long start, unsigned long sp) current->thread.tm_tfhar = 0; current->thread.tm_texasr = 0; current->thread.tm_tfiar = 0; + current->thread.load_tm = 0; #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM */ } EXPORT_SYMBOL(start_thread);-- 2.11.0