Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Apr 2019 12:16:06 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 40/57] kvm: properly check debugfs dentry before using it |
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 06:43:50AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 09:28:33PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> >> >> [ Upstream commit 8ed0579c12b2fe56a1fac2f712f58fc26c1dc49b ] >> >> debugfs can now report an error code if something went wrong instead of >> just NULL. So if the return value is to be used as a "real" dentry, it >> needs to be checked if it is an error before dereferencing it. >> >> This is now happening because of ff9fb72bc077 ("debugfs: return error >> values, not NULL"). syzbot has found a way to trigger multiple debugfs >> files attempting to be created, which fails, and then the error code >> gets passed to dentry_path_raw() which obviously does not like it. >> >> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> >> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+7857962b4d45e602b8ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com >> Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com> >> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org >> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> >> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> >> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> >> --- >> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c >> index c436d95fd7aa..fb74f994cb63 100644 >> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c >> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c >> @@ -3912,7 +3912,7 @@ static void kvm_uevent_notify_change(unsigned int type, struct kvm *kvm) >> } >> add_uevent_var(env, "PID=%d", kvm->userspace_pid); >> >> - if (kvm->debugfs_dentry) { >> + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(kvm->debugfs_dentry)) { >> char *tmp, *p = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL); >> >> if (p) { >> -- >> 2.19.1 >> > >Same thing here, this was a 5.0-only thing, no need for it to be >backported, please drop it from all trees.
Dropped, thanks!
-- Thanks, Sasha
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