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

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Wed Sep 17 14:56:17 PDT 2014


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)) {
 		hugetlb = true;
 		gfn = (fault_ipa & PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	} else {
-- 
1.8.3.2




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