[PATCH] KVM: Initialize debugfs_dentry when a VM is created to avoid NULL deref

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Apr 14 2022 - 20:46:29 EST


Initialize debugfs_entry to its semi-magical -ENOENT value when the VM
is created. KVM's teardown when VM creation fails is kludgy and calls
kvm_uevent_notify_change() and kvm_destroy_vm_debugfs() even if KVM never
attempted kvm_create_vm_debugfs(). Because debugfs_entry is zero
initialized, the IS_ERR() checks pass and KVM derefs a NULL pointer.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 1068b1067 P4D 1068b1067 PUD 1068b0067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 871 Comm: repro Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1+ #825
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
RIP: 0010:__dentry_path+0x7b/0x130
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dentry_path_raw+0x42/0x70
kvm_uevent_notify_change.part.0+0x10c/0x200 [kvm]
kvm_put_kvm+0x63/0x2b0 [kvm]
kvm_dev_ioctl+0x43a/0x920 [kvm]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x83/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x31/0x50
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
</TASK>
Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass

Fixes: a44a4cc1c969 ("KVM: Don't create VM debugfs files outside of the VM directory")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+df6fbbd2ee39f21289ef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index dfb7dabdbc63..d292c4397579 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -955,12 +955,6 @@ static int kvm_create_vm_debugfs(struct kvm *kvm, int fd)
int kvm_debugfs_num_entries = kvm_vm_stats_header.num_desc +
kvm_vcpu_stats_header.num_desc;

- /*
- * Force subsequent debugfs file creations to fail if the VM directory
- * is not created.
- */
- kvm->debugfs_dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
-
if (!debugfs_initialized())
return 0;

@@ -1081,6 +1075,12 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type)

BUILD_BUG_ON(KVM_MEM_SLOTS_NUM > SHRT_MAX);

+ /*
+ * Force subsequent debugfs file creations to fail if the VM directory
+ * is not created (by kvm_create_vm_debugfs()).
+ */
+ kvm->debugfs_dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+
if (init_srcu_struct(&kvm->srcu))
goto out_err_no_srcu;
if (init_srcu_struct(&kvm->irq_srcu))

base-commit: 150866cd0ec871c765181d145aa0912628289c8a
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2.36.0.rc0.470.gd361397f0d-goog