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[3.16.y-ckt,stable] Patch "arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in user_mem_abort()" has been added to staging queue

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Luis Henriques May 20, 2015, 12:30 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in user_mem_abort()

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt12.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From a3e0331251072077a86b2e4102fc78e3c9314880 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:56:17 -0700
Subject: arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in user_mem_abort()

commit 37b544087ef3f65ca68465ba39291a07195dac26 upstream.

Handle the potential NULL return value of find_vma_intersection()
before dereferencing it.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
index 40e52eeaf12f..0258b22bf9d1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -778,6 +778,12 @@  static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 	/* Let's check if we will get back a huge page backed by hugetlbfs */
 	down_read(&current->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(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+		return -EFAULT;
+	}
+
 	if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
 		hugetlb = true;
 		gfn = (fault_ipa & PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;