Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] KVM: SVM: Allocate SEV command structures on local stack

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/04/21 19:34, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 05:05:07PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
I used memset() to defer initialization until after the various sanity
checks,

I'd actually vote for that too - I don't like doing stuff which is not
going to be used. I.e., don't change what you have.

It's three votes for that then. :)

Sean, I squashed in this change

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index ec4c01807272..a4d0ca8c4710 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -1039,21 +1039,14 @@ static int sev_get_attestation_report(struct kvm *kvm, 
struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
 static int sev_send_cancel(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
 {
        struct kvm_sev_info *sev = &to_kvm_svm(kvm)->sev_info;
-       struct sev_data_send_cancel *data;
+       struct sev_data_send_cancel data;
        int ret;
 
 	if (!sev_guest(kvm))
                return -ENOTTY;
 
-	data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!data)
-               return -ENOMEM;
-
-       data->handle = sev->handle;
-       ret = sev_issue_cmd(kvm, SEV_CMD_SEND_CANCEL, data, &argp->error);
-
-       kfree(data);
-       return ret;
+       data.handle = sev->handle;
+       return sev_issue_cmd(kvm, SEV_CMD_SEND_CANCEL, &data, &argp->error);
 }
 
 int svm_mem_enc_op(struct kvm *kvm, void __user *argp)

to handle SV_CMD_SEND_CANCEL which I merged before this series.

Paolo