[PATCH 1/4] KVM: arm64: vgic: Don't assume the VM debugfs directory exists

Oliver Upton oupton at google.com
Sat Apr 2 10:40:41 PDT 2022


Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that KVM was able to instantiate a
debugfs directory for a particular VM. To that end, KVM shouldn't even
attempt to create new debugfs files in this case. If the specified
parent dentry is NULL, debugfs_create_file() will instantiate files at
the root of debugfs.

Since it is possible to create the vgic-state file outside of a VM
directory, the file is not cleaned up when a VM is destroyed.
Nonetheless, the corresponding struct kvm is freed when the VM is
destroyed.

Plug the use-after-free by plainly refusing to create vgic-state when
KVM fails to create a VM debugfs dir.

Cc: stable at kernel.org
Fixes: 929f45e32499 ("kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions")
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-debug.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-debug.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-debug.c
index f38c40a76251..cf1364a6fabc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-debug.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-debug.c
@@ -271,6 +271,9 @@ DEFINE_SEQ_ATTRIBUTE(vgic_debug);
 
 void vgic_debug_init(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
+	if (!kvm->debugfs_dentry)
+		return;
+
 	debugfs_create_file("vgic-state", 0444, kvm->debugfs_dentry, kvm,
 			    &vgic_debug_fops);
 }
-- 
2.35.1.1094.g7c7d902a7c-goog




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