From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Replace kzalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user()
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 02:29:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250903002951.118912-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
Replace kzalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with memdup_user() to
improve and simplify svm_set_nested_state().
Return early if an error occurs instead of trying to allocate memory for
'save' when memory allocation for 'ctl' already failed.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 20 +++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index b7fd2e869998..826473f2d7c7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -1798,17 +1798,15 @@ static int svm_set_nested_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
if (kvm_state->size < sizeof(*kvm_state) + KVM_STATE_NESTED_SVM_VMCB_SIZE)
return -EINVAL;
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- ctl = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctl), GFP_KERNEL);
- save = kzalloc(sizeof(*save), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ctl || !save)
- goto out_free;
-
- ret = -EFAULT;
- if (copy_from_user(ctl, &user_vmcb->control, sizeof(*ctl)))
- goto out_free;
- if (copy_from_user(save, &user_vmcb->save, sizeof(*save)))
- goto out_free;
+ ctl = memdup_user(&user_vmcb->control, sizeof(*ctl));
+ if (IS_ERR(ctl))
+ return PTR_ERR(ctl);
+
+ save = memdup_user(&user_vmcb->save, sizeof(*save));
+ if (IS_ERR(save)) {
+ kfree(ctl);
+ return PTR_ERR(save);
+ }
ret = -EINVAL;
__nested_copy_vmcb_control_to_cache(vcpu, &ctl_cached, ctl);
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-09-03 0:30 UTC|newest]
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2025-09-03 0:29 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2025-09-16 0:25 ` [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Replace kzalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user() Sean Christopherson
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