[PATCH] KVM: PPC: fix oops when checking KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM

Greg Kurz groug at kaod.org
Fri Sep 15 07:56:25 AEST 2017


The following program causes a kernel oops:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <linux/kvm.h>

main()
{
    int fd = open("/dev/kvm", O_RDWR);
    ioctl(fd, KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION, KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM);
}

This happens because when using the global KVM fd with
KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION, kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension() gets
called with a NULL kvm argument, which gets dereferenced
in is_kvmppc_hv_enabled(). Spotted while reading the code.

Let's use the hv_enabled fallback variable, like everywhere
else in this function.

Fixes: 23528bb21ee2 ("KVM: PPC: Introduce KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v4.7+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug at kaod.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
index 3480faaf1ef8..ee279c7f4802 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
@@ -644,8 +644,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
 		break;
 #endif
 	case KVM_CAP_PPC_HTM:
-		r = cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_TM_COMP) &&
-		    is_kvmppc_hv_enabled(kvm);
+		r = cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_TM_COMP) && hv_enabled;
 		break;
 	default:
 		r = 0;



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