The code will try to access dev->iotlb when processing VHOST_IOTLB_INVALIDATE even if it was not initialized which may lead to NULL pointer dereference. Fixes this by check dev->iotlb before. Fixes: 6b1e6cc7855b0 ("vhost: new device IOTLB API") Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index 549771a..5727b18 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -1015,6 +1015,10 @@ static int vhost_process_iotlb_msg(struct vhost_dev *dev, vhost_iotlb_notify_vq(dev, msg); break; case VHOST_IOTLB_INVALIDATE: + if (!dev->iotlb) { + ret = -EFAULT; + break; + } vhost_vq_meta_reset(dev); vhost_del_umem_range(dev->iotlb, msg->iova, msg->iova + msg->size - 1); -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization