From 27fbe64bfa63cfb9da025975b59d96568caa2d53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sam Bobroff Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:40:41 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index 96ec6226e4ab..95519bc959ed 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -1725,7 +1725,7 @@ int 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; -- 2.39.5