linux-kernel - [PATCH] KVM: X86: Fix dereference null cpufreq policy

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Message-Id: <1583133336-7832-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com>
Date:   Mon,  2 Mar 2020 15:15:36 +0800
From:   Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Fix dereference null cpufreq policy

From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>

Naresh Kamboju reported:

   Linux version 5.6.0-rc4 (oe-user@...host) (gcc version
  (GCC)) #1 SMP Sun Mar 1 22:59:08 UTC 2020
   kvm: no hardware support
   BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000028c
   #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
   #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
   PGD 0 P4D 0
   Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
   CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc4 #1
   Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
  04/01/2014
   RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0x12/0x1c0
   Call Trace:
    cpufreq_cpu_put+0x15/0x20
    kvm_arch_init+0x1f6/0x2b0
    kvm_init+0x31/0x290
    ? svm_check_processor_compat+0xd/0xd
    ? svm_check_processor_compat+0xd/0xd
    svm_init+0x21/0x23
    do_one_initcall+0x61/0x2f0
    ? rdinit_setup+0x30/0x30
    ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x4f/0x80
    kernel_init_freeable+0x219/0x279
    ? rest_init+0x250/0x250
    kernel_init+0xe/0x110
    ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50
   Modules linked in:
   CR2: 000000000000028c
   ---[ end trace 239abf40c55c409b ]---
   RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0x12/0x1c0

cpufreq policy which is get by cpufreq_cpu_get() can be NULL if it is failure,
this patch takes care of it.

Fixes: aaec7c03de (KVM: x86: avoid useless copy of cpufreq policy)
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 5de2006..3156e25 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -7195,10 +7195,12 @@ static void kvm_timer_init(void)
 
 		cpu = get_cpu();
 		policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
-		if (policy && policy->cpuinfo.max_freq)
-			max_tsc_khz = policy->cpuinfo.max_freq;
+		if (policy) {
+			if (policy->cpuinfo.max_freq)
+				max_tsc_khz = policy->cpuinfo.max_freq;
+			cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
+		}
 		put_cpu();
-		cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
 #endif
 		cpufreq_register_notifier(&kvmclock_cpufreq_notifier_block,
 					  CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER);
-- 
2.7.4