[PATCH v9 6/6] KVM: arm64: Zero out the stack initialized data in the FFA handler

Sebastian Ene via OP-TEE <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Jul 2026 10:38:43 +0000
Newsgroups org.trustedfirmware.lists.op-tee,dev.linux.lists.kvmarm,org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Don't leak hypervisor stack data when using the FFA_VERSION call.
When the compiler doesn't support -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero option
we need to zero out the stack initialized variable before returning data
to the host caller.

Closes:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Reported-by: Sashiko AI <[email protected]>
Fixes: c9c012625e12 ("KVM: arm64: Trap FFA_VERSION host call in pKVM")
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ene <[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 9c96e72e522e..a327c2bbb6b6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ 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
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