From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org (Ard Biesheuvel) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:10:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in user_mem_abort() In-Reply-To: <543687FD.2020504@arm.com> References: <1410990981-665-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <1410990981-665-3-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <543687FD.2020504@arm.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 9 October 2014 15:05, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 17/09/14 22:56, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> Handle the potential NULL return value of find_vma_intersection() >> before dereferencing it. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel >> --- >> arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 6 +++++- >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c >> index 152e0f896e63..c093e95ff7ef 100644 >> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c >> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c >> @@ -776,7 +776,11 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa, >> /* Let's check if we will get back a huge page backed by hugetlbfs */ >> down_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); >> vma = find_vma_intersection(current->mm, hva, hva + 1); >> - if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) { >> + if (unlikely(!vma)) { >> + kvm_err("Failed to find VMA for hva 0x%lx\n", hva); >> + up_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); >> + return -EFAULT; >> + } else if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) { > > I'm not overly fond of this "else if" construct. The !vma case is final, > so what's after cannot be reached. > I don't have a strong preference either way. I can respin but perhaps Christoffer can fix it up when applying? >> hugetlb = true; >> gfn = (fault_ipa & PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT; >> } else { >> > > Despite the above nit: > > Acked-by: Marc Zyngier > Thanks.