This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: irqfd: fix NULL pointer dereference in kvm_irq_map_gsi to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kvm-irqfd-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-kvm_irq_map_gsi.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c622a3c21ede892e370b56e1ceb9eb28f8bbda6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 14:09:21 +0200 Subject: KVM: irqfd: fix NULL pointer dereference in kvm_irq_map_gsi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> commit c622a3c21ede892e370b56e1ceb9eb28f8bbda6b upstream. Found by syzkaller: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000120 IP: [<ffffffffa0797202>] kvm_irq_map_gsi+0x12/0x90 [kvm] PGD 6f80b067 PUD b6535067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 3 PID: 4988 Comm: a.out Not tainted 4.4.9-300.fc23.x86_64 #1 [...] Call Trace: [<ffffffffa0795f62>] irqfd_update+0x32/0xc0 [kvm] [<ffffffffa0796c7c>] kvm_irqfd+0x3dc/0x5b0 [kvm] [<ffffffffa07943f4>] kvm_vm_ioctl+0x164/0x6f0 [kvm] [<ffffffff81241648>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x298/0x480 [<ffffffff812418a9>] SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90 [<ffffffff817a1062>] tracesys_phase2+0x84/0x89 Code: b5 71 a7 e0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 5d f3 c3 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 8b 8f 10 2e 00 00 31 c0 48 89 e5 <39> 91 20 01 00 00 76 6a 48 63 d2 48 8b 94 d1 28 01 00 00 48 85 RIP [<ffffffffa0797202>] kvm_irq_map_gsi+0x12/0x90 [kvm] RSP <ffff8800926cbca8> CR2: 0000000000000120 Testcase: #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <linux/kvm.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> long r[26]; int main() { memset(r, -1, sizeof(r)); r[2] = open("/dev/kvm", 0); r[3] = ioctl(r[2], KVM_CREATE_VM, 0); struct kvm_irqfd ifd; ifd.fd = syscall(SYS_eventfd2, 5, 0); ifd.gsi = 3; ifd.flags = 2; ifd.resamplefd = ifd.fd; r[25] = ioctl(r[3], KVM_IRQFD, &ifd); return 0; } Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- virt/kvm/irqchip.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/virt/kvm/irqchip.c +++ b/virt/kvm/irqchip.c @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ int kvm_irq_map_gsi(struct kvm *kvm, irq_rt = srcu_dereference_check(kvm->irq_routing, &kvm->irq_srcu, lockdep_is_held(&kvm->irq_lock)); - if (gsi < irq_rt->nr_rt_entries) { + if (irq_rt && gsi < irq_rt->nr_rt_entries) { hlist_for_each_entry(e, &irq_rt->map[gsi], link) { entries[n] = *e; ++n; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.6/kvm-irqfd-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-kvm_irq_map_gsi.patch queue-4.6/kvm-x86-fix-oops-after-invalid-kvm_set_debugregs.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html