Re: [PATCH v7 7/7] KVM: arm64: Zero out the stack initialized data in the FFA handler

On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 02:51:30PM +0000, Sebastian Ene wrote:
> Don't leak hypervisor stack data when using the FFA_VERSION call.
> When the compiler doesn't support -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero option

Even when it does, I believe this is an optional kernel option.

> we need to zero out the stack initialized variable before returning data
> to the host caller.
> 
> Reported-by: Sashiko AI <[email protected]>

It seems most people are using "Reported-by: Sashiko <[email protected]>"

> Closes:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
> Fixes: c9c012625e12 ("KVM: arm64: Trap FFA_VERSION host call in pKVM")
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ene <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]>

> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
> index d7c5701d0584..b321682ead04 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
> @@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ static void do_ffa_part_get(struct arm_smccc_1_2_regs *res,
>  
>  bool kvm_host_ffa_handler(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt, u32 func_id)
>  {
> -	struct arm_smccc_1_2_regs res;
> +	struct arm_smccc_1_2_regs res = {0};
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * There's no way we can tell what a non-standard SMC call might
> -- 
> 2.54.0.1136.gdb2ca164c4-goog
>