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authorSam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>2014-09-18 19:40:41 -0400
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2014-09-22 07:21:29 -0400
commit27fbe64bfa63cfb9da025975b59d96568caa2d53 (patch)
treea7cc2aac710c41561e5eed5dd296eda2a777820b /virt/kvm
parent85c8555ff07ef09261bd50d603cd4290cff5a8cc (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt/kvm')
-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 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)
1725 rcu_read_lock(); 1725 rcu_read_lock();
1726 pid = rcu_dereference(target->pid); 1726 pid = rcu_dereference(target->pid);
1727 if (pid) 1727 if (pid)
1728 task = get_pid_task(target->pid, PIDTYPE_PID); 1728 task = get_pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
1729 rcu_read_unlock(); 1729 rcu_read_unlock();
1730 if (!task) 1730 if (!task)
1731 return ret; 1731 return ret;