[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 055/129] arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in user_mem_abort()

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri May 22 08:57:20 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

commit 37b544087ef3f65ca68465ba39291a07195dac26 upstream.

Handle the potential NULL return value of find_vma_intersection()
before dereferencing it.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
index 40e52eeaf12f..0258b22bf9d1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -778,6 +778,12 @@ 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 (unlikely(!vma)) {
+		kvm_err("Failed to find VMA for hva 0x%lx\n", hva);
+		up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+		return -EFAULT;
+	}
+
 	if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
 		hugetlb = true;
 		gfn = (fault_ipa & PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;




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