[PATCH 2/6] arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in user_mem_abort()

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu Oct 9 06:05:01 PDT 2014


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 <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
>  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(&current->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(&current->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.

>  		hugetlb = true;
>  		gfn = (fault_ipa & PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  	} else {
> 

Despite the above nit:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

	M.
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