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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 17/09/2015 17:27, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>
>>> ( 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...

What about 0 + WARN?

Paolo

> less likely to get interesting surprises that are insane hard to
> debug/diagnose
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