vcpu_put is not called if the user copy fails. This can result in preempt notifier corruption and crashes, among other issues. Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: b3cebfe8c1ca ("KVM: PPC: Move vcpu_load/vcpu_put down to each ioctl case in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c index be33b5321a76..b4e6f70b97b9 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c @@ -2048,9 +2048,9 @@ long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp, { struct kvm_enable_cap cap; r = -EFAULT; - vcpu_load(vcpu); if (copy_from_user(&cap, argp, sizeof(cap))) goto out; + vcpu_load(vcpu); r = kvm_vcpu_ioctl_enable_cap(vcpu, &cap); vcpu_put(vcpu); break; @@ -2074,9 +2074,9 @@ long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp, case KVM_DIRTY_TLB: { struct kvm_dirty_tlb dirty; r = -EFAULT; - vcpu_load(vcpu); if (copy_from_user(&dirty, argp, sizeof(dirty))) goto out; + vcpu_load(vcpu); r = kvm_vcpu_ioctl_dirty_tlb(vcpu, &dirty); vcpu_put(vcpu); break; -- 2.23.0