[PATCH 1/2] KVM: PPC: e500: fix some NULL dereferences on error

Paul Mackerras paulus at ozlabs.org
Thu Aug 31 13:40:19 AEST 2017


On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:38:29AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> There are some error paths in kvmppc_core_vcpu_create_e500() where we
> forget to set the error code.  It means that we return ERR_PTR(0) which
> is NULL and it results in a NULL pointer dereference in the caller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

Thanks, both patches applied to my kvm-ppc-next branch.

Paul.


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