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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Eric Biggers" <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot <syzbot+7857962b4d45e602b8ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: [PATCH] kvm: properly check debugfs dentry before using it
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:34:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190228153437.GI8481@kroah.com> (raw)

debugfs can now report an error code if something went wrong instead of
just NULL.  So if the return value is to be used as a "real" dentry, it
needs to be checked if it is an error before dereferencing it.

This is now happening because of ff9fb72bc077 ("debugfs: return error
values, not NULL").  syzbot has found a way to trigger multiple debugfs
files attempting to be created, which fails, and then the error code
gets passed to dentry_path_raw() which obviously does not like it.

Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+7857962b4d45e602b8ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

Linus, this should go in before 5.0-final is out, as it resolves a
problem found by syzbot.  Paolo has given his ack for me to send this
directly to you.  If you want this in [GIT PULL] format, I can do that
as well.

 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -4044,7 +4044,7 @@ static void kvm_uevent_notify_change(uns
 	}
 	add_uevent_var(env, "PID=%d", kvm->userspace_pid);
 
-	if (kvm->debugfs_dentry) {
+	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(kvm->debugfs_dentry)) {
 		char *tmp, *p = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
 
 		if (p) {

             reply	other threads:[~2019-02-28 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-28 15:34 Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-02-28 16:58 ` [PATCH] kvm: properly check debugfs dentry before using it Linus Torvalds
2019-02-28 17:17 ` Eric Biggers
2019-02-28 18:04   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-01-30 10:35 general protection fault in __dentry_path syzbot
2019-02-21  4:14 ` syzbot
2019-02-26 19:19   ` Eric Biggers
2019-02-28 15:08     ` [PATCH] kvm: properly check debugfs dentry before using it Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-28 15:14       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-02-28 15:32         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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