Hi Breno, Looks good to me.
> Currently tsk->thread.load_tm is not initialized in the task creation > and can contain garbage on a new task. > > This is an undesired behaviour, since it affects the timing to enable > and disable the transactional memory laziness (disabling and enabling > the MSR TM bit, which affects TM reclaim and recheckpoint in the > scheduling process). Is there any chance this uninitialised memory will leak something interesting/sensitive? (Therefore, should this go to stable?) Regards, Daniel > CC: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org> > Fixes: 5d176f751ee3c6eededd984ad409bff201f436a7 > Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <lei...@debian.org> > --- > arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c > index a9435397eab8..2ad725ef4368 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c > @@ -1687,6 +1687,7 @@ void start_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long > start, unsigned long sp) > current->thread.tm_tfhar = 0; > current->thread.tm_texasr = 0; > current->thread.tm_tfiar = 0; > + current->thread.load_tm = 0; > #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM */ > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(start_thread); > -- > 2.11.0
