Commit a430c9166312e1aa3d80bce32374233bdbfeba32

Authored by Paolo Bonzini
1 parent 08da44aedb

KVM: emulate: avoid accessing NULL ctxt->memopp

A failure to decode the instruction can cause a NULL pointer access.
This is fixed simply by moving the "done" label as close as possible
to the return.

This fixes CVE-2014-8481.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 41061cdb98a0bec464278b4db8e894a3121671f5
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
... ... @@ -4580,10 +4580,10 @@
4580 4580 /* Decode and fetch the destination operand: register or memory. */
4581 4581 rc = decode_operand(ctxt, &ctxt->dst, (ctxt->d >> DstShift) & OpMask);
4582 4582  
4583   -done:
4584 4583 if (ctxt->rip_relative)
4585 4584 ctxt->memopp->addr.mem.ea += ctxt->_eip;
4586 4585  
  4586 +done:
4587 4587 return (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINUE) ? EMULATION_FAILED : EMULATION_OK;
4588 4588 }
4589 4589