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Commit f45755b8 authored by Xiaotian Feng's avatar Xiaotian Feng Committed by Avi Kivity
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KVM: fix poison overwritten caused by using wrong xstate size



fpu.state is allocated from task_xstate_cachep, the size of task_xstate_cachep
is xstate_size. xstate_size is set from cpuid instruction, which is often
smaller than sizeof(struct xsave_struct). kvm is using sizeof(struct xsave_struct)
to fill in/out fpu.state.xsave, as what we allocated for fpu.state is
xstate_size, kernel will write out of memory and caused poison/redzone/padding
overwritten warnings.

Signed-off-by: default avatarXiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
parent 3cfc2c42
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