linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] powerpc/kvm/book3s: Fixes possible 'use after release' of kvm

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Message-Id: <20191126175212.377171-1-leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:52:12 -0300
From:   Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] powerpc/kvm/book3s: Fixes possible 'use after release' of kvm

Fixes a possible 'use after free' of kvm variable.
It does use mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock) after possible freeing a variable
with kvm_put_kvm(kvm).

Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c | 3 +--
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c              | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
index 5834db0a54c6..a402ead833b6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
@@ -316,14 +316,13 @@ long kvm_vm_ioctl_create_spapr_tce(struct kvm *kvm,
 
 	if (ret >= 0)
 		list_add_rcu(&stt->list, &kvm->arch.spapr_tce_tables);
-	else
-		kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
 
 	if (ret >= 0)
 		return ret;
 
+	kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
 	kfree(stt);
  fail_acct:
 	account_locked_vm(current->mm, kvmppc_stt_pages(npages), false);
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 13efc291b1c7..f37089b60d09 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2744,10 +2744,8 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, u32 id)
 	/* Now it's all set up, let userspace reach it */
 	kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
 	r = create_vcpu_fd(vcpu);
-	if (r < 0) {
-		kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
+	if (r < 0)
 		goto unlock_vcpu_destroy;
-	}
 
 	kvm->vcpus[atomic_read(&kvm->online_vcpus)] = vcpu;
 
@@ -2771,6 +2769,8 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, u32 id)
 	mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
 	kvm->created_vcpus--;
 	mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
+	if (r < 0)
+		kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
 	return r;
 }
 
@@ -3183,10 +3183,10 @@ static int kvm_ioctl_create_device(struct kvm *kvm,
 	kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
 	ret = anon_inode_getfd(ops->name, &kvm_device_fops, dev, O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC);
 	if (ret < 0) {
-		kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
 		mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
 		list_del(&dev->vm_node);
 		mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
+		kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
 		ops->destroy(dev);
 		return ret;
 	}
-- 
2.23.0