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) {
next 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
[not found] <0000000000007e10c50580aa7684@google.com>
2019-02-21 4:14 ` general protection fault in __dentry_path 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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