Patch "arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm-arm64-kvm-fix-potential-null-dereference-in.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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37b544087ef3f65ca68465ba39291a07195dac26Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:56:17 -0700
Subject: arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in
user_mem_abort()
From: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
commit 37b544087ef3f65ca68465ba39291a07195dac26 upstream.
Handle the potential NULL return value of find_vma_intersection() before dereferencing it.
--- arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c +6 -0
@@ -778,6 +778,12 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcp/* Let's check if we will get back a huge page backed by hugetlbfs */ down_read (¤t->mm->mmap_sem); vma =find_vma_intersection (current->mm, hva, hva +1 ); +if (unlikely (!vma)) { +kvm_err ("Failed to find VMA for hva 0x%lx\n" , hva); +up_read (¤t->mm->mmap_sem); +return -EFAULT ; + } +if (is_vm_hugetlb_page (vma)) { hugetlb = true; gfn = (fault_ipa &PMD_MASK ) >>PAGE_SHIFT ;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.14/arm-arm64-kvm-fix-potential-null-dereference-in.patch queue-3.14/arm-arm64-kvm-fix-use-of-wnr-bit-in-kvm_is_write_fault.patch