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authorSam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>2014-09-19 09:40:41 +1000
committerChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>2014-10-08 11:10:11 +0200
commitd731c6c9b17b8a6b471981b3e310235049190034 (patch)
tree5179243409bd517d6c23790651e6c7b0d0d8d299
parent699d6a59f5d9aeddaf74ee4f9f81c51d5860f12c (diff)
KVM: correct null pid check in kvm_vcpu_yield_to()
Correct a simple mistake of checking the wrong variable before a dereference, resulting in the dereference not being properly protected by rcu_dereference(). Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit 27fbe64bfa63cfb9da025975b59d96568caa2d53) Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 0733a2a51d0b..4bdadf1a6754 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@ bool kvm_vcpu_yield_to(struct kvm_vcpu *target)
rcu_read_lock();
pid = rcu_dereference(target->pid);
if (pid)
- task = get_pid_task(target->pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
+ task = get_pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
rcu_read_unlock();
if (!task)
return ret;