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-rw-r--r--drivers/lguest/lguest.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest.c b/drivers/lguest/lguest.c
index 6dfe568523a..3386b0e7690 100644
--- a/drivers/lguest/lguest.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest.c
@@ -1019,6 +1019,11 @@ __init void lguest_init(void *boot)
* the normal data segment to get through booting. */
asm volatile ("mov %0, %%fs" : : "r" (__KERNEL_DS) : "memory");
+ /* Clear the part of the kernel data which is expected to be zero.
+ * Normally it will be anyway, but if we're loading from a bzImage with
+ * CONFIG_RELOCATALE=y, the relocations will be sitting here. */
+ memset(__bss_start, 0, __bss_stop - __bss_start);
+
/* The Host uses the top of the Guest's virtual address space for the
* Host<->Guest Switcher, and it tells us how much it needs in
* lguest_data.reserve_mem, set up on the LGUEST_INIT hypercall. */