[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/MCE: avoid leaking stack data

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

While HYPERVISOR_mca is a privileged operation, we still shouldn't leak
stack contents (the tail of every array entry's mc_msrvalues[] of
XEN_MC_physcpuinfo output). Simply use a zeroing allocation here.

Take the occasion and also restrict the involved local variable's scope.

Reported-by: Ilja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -1352,7 +1352,6 @@ long do_mca(XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_PARAM(xen_m
     } mc_physcpuinfo;
     uint32_t flags, cmdflags;
     int nlcpu;
-    xen_mc_logical_cpu_t *log_cpus = NULL;
     mctelem_cookie_t mctc;
     mctelem_class_t which;
     unsigned int target;
@@ -1445,11 +1444,13 @@ long do_mca(XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_PARAM(xen_m
              ? !guest_handle_is_null(mc_physcpuinfo.nat->info)
              : !compat_handle_is_null(mc_physcpuinfo.cmp->info) )
         {
+            xen_mc_logical_cpu_t *log_cpus;
+
             if ( mc_physcpuinfo.nat->ncpus <= 0 )
                 return x86_mcerr("do_mca cpuinfo: ncpus <= 0",
                                  -EINVAL);
             nlcpu = min(nlcpu, (int)mc_physcpuinfo.nat->ncpus);
-            log_cpus = xmalloc_array(xen_mc_logical_cpu_t, nlcpu);
+            log_cpus = xzalloc_array(xen_mc_logical_cpu_t, nlcpu);
             if ( log_cpus == NULL )
                 return x86_mcerr("do_mca cpuinfo", -ENOMEM);
             on_each_cpu(do_mc_get_cpu_info, log_cpus, 1);

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