[PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Set cached_vmcs12 and cached_shadow_vmcs12 NULL after free

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Shall help finding use-after-free bugs earlier.

Suggested-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 4cdab4b4eff1..ced9fba32598 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -234,7 +234,9 @@ static void free_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs = NULL;
 	}
 	kfree(vmx->nested.cached_vmcs12);
+	vmx->nested.cached_vmcs12 = NULL;
 	kfree(vmx->nested.cached_shadow_vmcs12);
+	vmx->nested.cached_shadow_vmcs12 = NULL;
 	/* Unpin physical memory we referred to in the vmcs02 */
 	if (vmx->nested.apic_access_page) {
 		kvm_release_page_dirty(vmx->nested.apic_access_page);
--
2.16.4




[Index of Archives]     [KVM ARM]     [KVM ia64]     [KVM ppc]     [Virtualization Tools]     [Spice Development]     [Libvirt]     [Libvirt Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Questions]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]

  Powered by Linux