From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>, gleb@kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] KVM: correct null pid check in kvm_vcpu_yield_to()
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:33:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <541C30B9.2010603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c28fe538f7897b0e6695deef34f40c6ee8f7983d.1411083615.git.sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Il 19/09/2014 01:40, Sam Bobroff ha scritto:
> Correct a simple mistake of checking the wrong variable
> before a dereference, resulting in the dereference not being
> properly protected by rcu_dereference().
>
> Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
> ---
>
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 33712fb..688acb0 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -1725,7 +1725,7 @@ int kvm_vcpu_yield_to(struct kvm_vcpu *target)
> rcu_read_lock();
> pid = rcu_dereference(target->pid);
> if (pid)
> - task = get_pid_task(target->pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
> + task = get_pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
> rcu_read_unlock();
> if (!task)
> return ret;
>
Thanks, applying to kvm/master.
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-19 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-18 23:40 [PATCH 1/1] KVM: correct null pid check in kvm_vcpu_yield_to() Sam Bobroff
2014-09-19 13:33 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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