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Paolo Bonzini d56f5136b0 KVM: let kvm_destroy_vm_debugfs clean up vCPU debugfs directories
After commit 63d0434 ("KVM: x86: move kvm_create_vcpu_debugfs after
last failure point") we are creating the pre-vCPU debugfs files
after the creation of the vCPU file descriptor.  This makes it
possible for userspace to reach kvm_vcpu_release before
kvm_create_vcpu_debugfs has finished.  The vcpu->debugfs_dentry
then does not have any associated inode anymore, and this causes
a NULL-pointer dereference in debugfs_create_file.

The solution is simply to avoid removing the files; they are
cleaned up when the VM file descriptor is closed (and that must be
after KVM_CREATE_VCPU returns).  We can stop storing the dentry
in struct kvm_vcpu too, because it is not needed anywhere after
kvm_create_vcpu_debugfs returns.

Reported-by: syzbot+705f4401d5a93a59b87d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 63d0434837 ("KVM: x86: move kvm_create_vcpu_debugfs after last failure point")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-06-04 11:00:54 -04:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.