Make sure to zero out memory before calling madvise to increase robustness

Avi pointed out that it's not entirely safe to rely on madvise zeroing out
memory.  So let's do it explicitly before calling madvise.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 60a00e1b25910a80f2b740eb243ecc2d2cba57ee..1c077b4c86b8158a1856f85390507e7d6dd69a4c 100644 (file)
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -3358,13 +3358,13 @@ static int ram_load(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque, int version_id)
         
         if (flags & RAM_SAVE_FLAG_COMPRESS) {
             uint8_t ch = qemu_get_byte(f);
-#if defined(__linux__)
+            memset(qemu_get_ram_ptr(addr), ch, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
+#ifndef _WIN32
             if (ch == 0 &&
                 (!kvm_enabled() || kvm_has_sync_mmu())) {
                 madvise(qemu_get_ram_ptr(addr), TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, MADV_DONTNEED);
-            } else
+            }
 #endif
-            memset(qemu_get_ram_ptr(addr), ch, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
         } else if (flags & RAM_SAVE_FLAG_PAGE)
             qemu_get_buffer(f, qemu_get_ram_ptr(addr), TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
     } while (!(flags & RAM_SAVE_FLAG_EOS));