[PATCH] kvm: properly check debugfs dentry before using it

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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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+7857962b4d45e602b8ad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Linus, this should go in before 5.0-final is out, as it resolves a
problem found by syzbot.  Paolo has given his ack for me to send this
directly to you.  If you want this in [GIT PULL] format, I can do that
as well.

 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -4044,7 +4044,7 @@ static void kvm_uevent_notify_change(uns
 	}
 	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) {



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