[PATCH 10/35] KVM: Use kzalloc to avoid allocating kvm_regs from kernel stack

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Apr 03 2008 - 15:35:31 EST


From: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>

Since the size of kvm_regs is too big to allocate from kernel stack on ia64,
use kzalloc to allocate it.

Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 0dabf58..30bf832 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -849,28 +849,39 @@ static long kvm_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
r = kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(vcpu, vcpu->run);
break;
case KVM_GET_REGS: {
- struct kvm_regs kvm_regs;
+ struct kvm_regs *kvm_regs;

- memset(&kvm_regs, 0, sizeof kvm_regs);
- r = kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_get_regs(vcpu, &kvm_regs);
- if (r)
+ r = -ENOMEM;
+ kvm_regs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_regs), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!kvm_regs)
goto out;
+ r = kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_get_regs(vcpu, kvm_regs);
+ if (r)
+ goto out_free1;
r = -EFAULT;
- if (copy_to_user(argp, &kvm_regs, sizeof kvm_regs))
- goto out;
+ if (copy_to_user(argp, kvm_regs, sizeof(struct kvm_regs)))
+ goto out_free1;
r = 0;
+out_free1:
+ kfree(kvm_regs);
break;
}
case KVM_SET_REGS: {
- struct kvm_regs kvm_regs;
+ struct kvm_regs *kvm_regs;

- r = -EFAULT;
- if (copy_from_user(&kvm_regs, argp, sizeof kvm_regs))
+ r = -ENOMEM;
+ kvm_regs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_regs), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!kvm_regs)
goto out;
- r = kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_regs(vcpu, &kvm_regs);
+ r = -EFAULT;
+ if (copy_from_user(kvm_regs, argp, sizeof(struct kvm_regs)))
+ goto out_free2;
+ r = kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_regs(vcpu, kvm_regs);
if (r)
- goto out;
+ goto out_free2;
r = 0;
+out_free2:
+ kfree(kvm_regs);
break;
}
case KVM_GET_SREGS: {
--
1.5.4.5

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