[PATCH v2] RISC-V: KVM: Fix null pointer dereference in kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr

Jiakai Xu jiakaipeanut at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 00:51:57 PST 2026


Add a null pointer check for imsic_state before dereferencing it in
kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr(). While the function checks that the
vcpu exists, it doesn't verify that the vcpu's imsic_state has been
initialized, leading to a null pointer dereference when accessed.

This issue was discovered during fuzzing of RISC-V KVM code. The
crash occurs when userspace calls KVM_HAS_DEVICE_ATTR ioctl on an
AIA IMSIC device before the IMSIC state has been fully initialized
for a vcpu.

The crash manifests as:
  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
  dfffffff00000001
  ...
  epc : kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr+0x464/0x50e
  arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c:998
  ...
  kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr+0x464/0x50e arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c:998
  aia_has_attr+0x128/0x2bc arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c:471
  kvm_device_ioctl_attr virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4722 [inline]
  kvm_device_ioctl+0x296/0x374 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4739
  ...

The fix adds a check to return -ENODEV if imsic_state is NULL, which
is consistent with other error handling in the function and prevents
the null pointer dereference.

v2: add Fixes tag and drop external link as suggested.

Fixes: 5463091a51cf ("RISC-V: KVM: Expose IMSIC registers as attributes of AIA irqchip")
Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025 at iscas.ac.cn>
---
 arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
index e597e86491c3b..9c58a66068447 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
@@ -995,6 +995,9 @@ int kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
 
 	isel = KVM_DEV_RISCV_AIA_IMSIC_GET_ISEL(type);
 	imsic = vcpu->arch.aia_context.imsic_state;
+	if (!imsic)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	return imsic_mrif_isel_check(imsic->nr_eix, isel);
 }
 
-- 
2.34.1




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