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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2021-12-17 16:49:25 +0100
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2021-12-20 11:41:02 +0100
commit1acd85feba81084fcef00b73fc1601e42b77c5d8 (patch)
treef5a39a5f3974870a599097ff5650c56b28919571 /arch/x86/kernel
parentx86/mce: Mark mce_start() noinstr (diff)
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x86/mce: Check regs before accessing it
Commit in Fixes accesses pt_regs before checking whether it is NULL or not. Make sure the NULL pointer check happens first. Fixes: 0a5b288e85bb ("x86/mce: Prevent severity computation from being instrumented") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211217102029.GA29708@kili
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/severity.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/severity.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/severity.c
index a32646769705..7aa2bda93cbb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/severity.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/severity.c
@@ -222,6 +222,9 @@ static bool is_copy_from_user(struct pt_regs *regs)
struct insn insn;
int ret;
+ if (!regs)
+ return false;
+
if (copy_from_kernel_nofault(insn_buf, (void *)regs->ip, MAX_INSN_SIZE))
return false;
@@ -283,7 +286,7 @@ static noinstr int error_context(struct mce *m, struct pt_regs *regs)
switch (fixup_type) {
case EX_TYPE_UACCESS:
case EX_TYPE_COPY:
- if (!regs || !copy_user)
+ if (!copy_user)
return IN_KERNEL;
m->kflags |= MCE_IN_KERNEL_COPYIN;
fallthrough;