RE: Ping: [PATCH] x86/CPUID: fill all fields in x86_cpuid_policy_fill_native()

[Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 24 June 2020 16:36
> To: Paul Durrant <paul@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>; 
> xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>;
> Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Ping: [PATCH] x86/CPUID: fill all fields in 
> x86_cpuid_policy_fill_native()
> 
> (sorry, re-sending with To and Cc corrected)
> 
> On 22.06.2020 14:39, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > On 22/06/2020 13:09, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> Coverity validly complains that the new call from
> >> tools/tests/cpu-policy/test-cpu-policy.c:test_cpuid_current() leaves
> >> two fields uninitialized, yet they get then consumed by
> >> x86_cpuid_copy_to_buffer(). (All other present callers of the function
> >> pass a pointer to a static - and hence initialized - buffer.)
> >>
> >> Coverity-ID: 1464809
> >> Fixes: c22ced93e167 ("tests/cpu-policy: Confirm that CPUID serialisation 
> >> is sorted")
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> --- a/xen/lib/x86/cpuid.c
> >> +++ b/xen/lib/x86/cpuid.c
> >> @@ -176,6 +176,10 @@ void x86_cpuid_policy_fill_native(struct
> >>                            ARRAY_SIZE(p->extd.raw) - 1); ++i )
> >>          cpuid_leaf(0x80000000 + i, &p->extd.raw[i]);
> >>
> >> +    /* Don't report leaves from possible lower level hypervisor. */
> >
> > ", for now."
> >
> > This will change in the future.
> >
> > With this, Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Paul?

Release-acked-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xxxxxxx>

> 
> Thanks, Jan