From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8ed0579c12b2fe56a1fac2f712f58fc26c1dc49b ] debugfs can now report an error code if something went wrong instead of just NULL. So if the return value is to be used as a "real" dentry, it needs to be checked if it is an error before dereferencing it. This is now happening because of ff9fb72bc077 ("debugfs: return error values, not NULL"). syzbot has found a way to trigger multiple debugfs files attempting to be created, which fails, and then the error code gets passed to dentry_path_raw() which obviously does not like it. Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+7857962b4d45e602b8ad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index df3fc0f214ece..9502b1a44232c 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -3990,7 +3990,7 @@ static void kvm_uevent_notify_change(unsigned int type, struct kvm *kvm) } add_uevent_var(env, "PID=%d", kvm->userspace_pid); - if (kvm->debugfs_dentry) { + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(kvm->debugfs_dentry)) { char *tmp, *p = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL); if (p) { -- 2.20.1