From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reported by syzkaller: kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN CPU: 0 PID: 14727 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc4+ #0 RIP: 0010:kvm_coalesced_mmio_init+0x5d/0x110 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c:121 Call Trace: kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3446 [inline] kvm_dev_ioctl+0x781/0x1490 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3494 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:46 [inline] file_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:509 [inline] do_vfs_ioctl+0x196/0x1150 fs/ioctl.c:696 ksys_ioctl+0x62/0x90 fs/ioctl.c:713 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:720 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:718 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x6e/0xb0 fs/ioctl.c:718 do_syscall_64+0xca/0x5d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe Commit 9121923c457d ("kvm: Allocate memslots and buses before calling kvm_arch_init_vm") moves memslots and buses allocations around, however, if kvm->srcu/irq_srcu fails initialization, NULL will be returned instead of error code, NULL will not be intercepted in kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm() and be deferenced by kvm_coalesced_mmio_init(), this patch fixes it. syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=13509b84e00000 Reported-by: syzbot+89a8060879fa0bd2db4f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 9121923c457d ("kvm: Allocate memslots and buses before calling kvm_arch_init_vm") Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index d6f0696..8c272eb 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -675,6 +675,7 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type) INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&kvm->irq_ack_notifier_list); #endif + r = -ENOMEM; if (init_srcu_struct(&kvm->srcu)) goto out_err_no_srcu; if (init_srcu_struct(&kvm->irq_srcu)) -- 2.7.4