Bug 2347712 (CVE-2022-49568) - CVE-2022-49568 kernel: KVM: Don't null dereference ops->destroy
Summary: CVE-2022-49568 kernel: KVM: Don't null dereference ops->destroy
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49568
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-02-26 03:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-03-16 12:55 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:04:08 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: Don't null dereference ops->destroy

A KVM device cleanup happens in either of two callbacks:
1) destroy() which is called when the VM is being destroyed;
2) release() which is called when a device fd is closed.

Most KVM devices use 1) but Book3s's interrupt controller KVM devices
(XICS, XIVE, XIVE-native) use 2) as they need to close and reopen during
the machine execution. The error handling in kvm_ioctl_create_device()
assumes destroy() is always defined which leads to NULL dereference as
discovered by Syzkaller.

This adds a checks for destroy!=NULL and adds a missing release().

This is not changing kvm_destroy_devices() as devices with defined
release() should have been removed from the KVM devices list by then.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 12:59:57 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022606-CVE-2022-49568-e2f5@gregkh/T

Comment 4 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 17:13:06 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022606-CVE-2022-49568-e2f5@gregkh/T


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