From: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.and...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, 
November 18, 2020 6:37 AM
> 
> __vmbus_open() and vmbus_teardown_gpadl() do not inizialite the memory
> for the vmbus_channel_open_channel and the vmbus_channel_gpadl_teardown
> objects they allocate respectively.  These objects contain padding bytes
> and fields that are left uninitialized and that are later sent to the
> host, potentially leaking guest data.  Zero initialize such fields to
> avoid leaking sensitive information to the host.
> 
> Reported-by: Juan Vazquez <juv...@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.and...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hv/channel.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel.c b/drivers/hv/channel.c
> index 0d63862d65518..9aa789e5f22bb 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/channel.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c
> @@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ static int __vmbus_open(struct vmbus_channel *newchannel,
>               goto error_clean_ring;
> 
>       /* Create and init the channel open message */
> -     open_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*open_info) +
> +     open_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*open_info) +
>                          sizeof(struct vmbus_channel_open_channel),
>                          GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!open_info) {
> @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ int vmbus_teardown_gpadl(struct vmbus_channel *channel, 
> u32
> gpadl_handle)
>       unsigned long flags;
>       int ret;
> 
> -     info = kmalloc(sizeof(*info) +
> +     info = kzalloc(sizeof(*info) +
>                      sizeof(struct vmbus_channel_gpadl_teardown), GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!info)
>               return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.25.1

This change is actually zero'ing more memory than is necessary.  Only the
'msg' portion is sent to Hyper-V, so that's all that needs to be zero'ed.
But this code is not performance sensitive, and doing the tighter zero'ing
would add lines of code with no real value.  So,

Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikel...@microsoft.com>

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