[PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: its: Fix missing dynamic allocation check in scan_its_table

Andrew Jones drjones at redhat.com
Fri Oct 13 07:00:18 PDT 2017


On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 03:17:34PM +0200, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> We currently allocate an entry dynamically, but we never check if the
> allocation actually succeeded.  We actually don't need a dynamic
> allocation, because we know the maximum size of an ITS table entry, so
> we can simply use an allocation on the stack.
> 
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c | 18 +++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
> index f51c1e1..1d2668b 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
> @@ -1801,37 +1801,33 @@ typedef int (*entry_fn_t)(struct vgic_its *its, u32 id, void *entry,
>  static int scan_its_table(struct vgic_its *its, gpa_t base, int size, int esz,
>  			  int start_id, entry_fn_t fn, void *opaque)
>  {
> -	void *entry = kzalloc(esz, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	struct kvm *kvm = its->dev->kvm;
>  	unsigned long len = size;
>  	int id = start_id;
>  	gpa_t gpa = base;
> +	char entry[esz]

Might want a semicolon here :-)

drew



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