From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, christoffer.dall@linaro.org,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com,
shannon.zhao@linaro.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 11:23:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <143577500411539@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm-arm64-kvm-fix-potential-null-dereference-in.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From 37b544087ef3f65ca68465ba39291a07195dac26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:56:17 -0700
Subject: arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in
user_mem_abort()
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
commit 37b544087ef3f65ca68465ba39291a07195dac26 upstream.
Handle the potential NULL return value of find_vma_intersection()
before dereferencing it.
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -778,6 +778,12 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcp
/* Let's check if we will get back a huge page backed by hugetlbfs */
down_read(¤t->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(¤t->mm->mmap_sem);
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
+
if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
hugetlb = true;
gfn = (fault_ipa & PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org are
queue-3.14/arm-arm64-kvm-fix-potential-null-dereference-in.patch
queue-3.14/arm-arm64-kvm-fix-use-of-wnr-bit-in-kvm_is_write_fault.patch
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