Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: Potential NULL pointer dereference in kvm_arch_init_vcpu()

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 30/01/19 15:49, Liam Merwick wrote:
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target/i386/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm.c
> index 9af4542fb8a8..89fac4a5576c 100644
> --- a/target/i386/kvm.c
> +++ b/target/i386/kvm.c
> @@ -1308,7 +1308,9 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *cs)
>          c->ecx = c->edx = 0;
>  
>          c = cpuid_find_entry(&cpuid_data.cpuid, kvm_base, 0);
> -        c->eax = MAX(c->eax, KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE | 0x10);
> +        if (c) {
> +            c->eax = MAX(c->eax, KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE | 0x10);
> +     }
>      }
>  
>      cpuid_data.cpuid.nent = cpuid_i;
> -- 1.8.3.1

That cannot happen, the line is inside "if (cpu->expose_kvm)" which in
turn has added that CPUID entry to cpuid_data.

Thanks,

Paolo