Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Fix sev_pin_memory() error handling

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On 31/07/20 22:18, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 05:23:51PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> The sev_pin_memory() function was modified to return error pointers
>> instead of NULL but there are two problems.  The first problem is that
>> if "npages" is zero then it still returns NULL.  Secondly, several of
>> the callers were not updated to check for error pointers instead of
>> NULL.
>>
>> Either one of these issues will lead to an Oops.
>>
>> Fixes: a8d908b5873c ("KVM: x86: report sev_pin_memory errors with PTR_ERR")
> 
> Explicit Cc: to stable needed for KVM patches.
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> 

Fortunately it's only broken in 5.9.  Queued, thanks.

Paolo




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