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From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterx@redhat.com,
	Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Steffen Dirkwinkel <kernel-bugs@steffen.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: X86: Fix null pointer reference for KVM_GET_MSRS
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:07:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rhl2w4w.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201025185334.389061-3-peterx@redhat.com>

Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> writes:

> kvm_msr_ignored_check() could trigger a null pointer reference

'dereference' but I'd also clarify that 'vcpu' is NULL.

>  if ignore_msrs=Y
> and report_ignore_msrs=Y when try to fetch an invalid feature msr using the
> global KVM_GET_MSRS.  Degrade the error report to not rely on vcpu since that
> information (index, rip) is not as important as msr index/data after all.
>
> Fixes: 12bc2132b15e0a96

Fixes: 12bc2132b15e ("KVM: X86: Do the same ignore_msrs check for feature msrs")

please (checkpatch.pl should've complained I guess)

> Reported-by: Steffen Dirkwinkel <kernel-bugs@steffen.cc>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index ce856e0ece84..5993fbd6d2c5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -259,8 +259,8 @@ static int kvm_msr_ignored_check(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr,
>  
>  	if (ignore_msrs) {
>  		if (report_ignored_msrs)
> -			vcpu_unimpl(vcpu, "ignored %s: 0x%x data 0x%llx\n",
> -				    op, msr, data);
> +			kvm_pr_unimpl("ignored %s: 0x%x data 0x%llx\n",
> +				      op, msr, data);

I would've preserved vcpu version for non-gloal cases, e.g.

if (report_ignored_msrs) {
	if (vcpu)
        	vcpu_unimpl(vcpu, "ignored %s: 0x%x data 0x%llx\n",
	                op, msr, data);
        else
	        kvm_pr_unimpl("ignored %s: 0x%x data 0x%llx\n",
                               op, msr, data);
}

>  		/* Mask the error */
>  		return 0;
>  	} else {

-- 
Vitaly


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-26  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-25 18:53 [PATCH 0/2] Fix null pointer dereference in kvm_msr_ignored_check Peter Xu
2020-10-25 18:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: selftests: Add get featured msrs test case Peter Xu
2020-10-26  8:58   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-10-26  9:08     ` Andrew Jones
2020-10-31 15:34     ` Peter Xu
2020-10-25 18:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: X86: Fix null pointer reference for KVM_GET_MSRS Peter Xu
2020-10-26  9:07   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2020-10-31 14:06   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-31 15:27     ` Peter Xu

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