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SubjectRe: [PATCH] KVM: x86: remove dead initialization
On Mon, Aug 09, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> hv_vcpu is initialized again a dozen lines below, so remove the
> initializer.

Eewwww. It's not just dead code, it's code that could potentially lead to
dereferncing a NULL pointer and/or a stale pointer. The second initialization
of the local hv_vcpu happens after a conditional call to kvm_hv_vcpu_init().

Maybe update the changelog to clarify why the second initialization absolutely
must be kept?

For the code:

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c b/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c
> index e9582db29a99..2da21e45da99 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c
> @@ -1968,7 +1968,7 @@ static u64 kvm_hv_send_ipi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_hv_hcall *hc, bool
> void kvm_hv_set_cpuid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry;
> - struct kvm_vcpu_hv *hv_vcpu = to_hv_vcpu(vcpu);
> + struct kvm_vcpu_hv *hv_vcpu;
>
> entry = kvm_find_cpuid_entry(vcpu, HYPERV_CPUID_INTERFACE, 0);
> if (entry && entry->eax == HYPERV_CPUID_SIGNATURE_EAX) {
> --
> 2.27.0
>

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