Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/paravirt: Fix baremetal paravirt MSR ops

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Sep 17 2015 - 11:28:08 EST



( We should double check that rdmsr()/wrmsr() results are never left
uninitialized, but are set to zero or so, for cases where the return code is not
checked. )

It sure looks like native_read_msr_safe doesn't clear the output if
the rdmsr fails.

I'd suggest to return some poison not just 0...
less likely to get interesting surprises that are insane hard to debug/diagnose



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