From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> When the arch timer code fails to initialize (for example because the memory mapped timer doesn't work, which is currently seen with the AEM model), then KVM just continues happily with a final result that KVM eventually does a NULL pointer dereference of the uninitialized cycle counter. Check directly for this in the init path and give the user a reasonable error in this case. Cc: Shih-Wei Li <shihwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> --- virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c index 17b8fa5..ae95fc0 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c @@ -425,6 +425,11 @@ int kvm_timer_hyp_init(void) info = arch_timer_get_kvm_info(); timecounter = &info->timecounter; + if (!timecounter->cc) { + kvm_err("kvm_arch_timer: uninitialized timecounter\n"); + return -ENODEV; + } + if (info->virtual_irq <= 0) { kvm_err("kvm_arch_timer: invalid virtual timer IRQ: %d\n", info->virtual_irq); -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html