From: lirongqing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, <x86@kernel.org>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>, <sohil.mehta@intel.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH][v2] x86/process: Return early if TIF_IO_BITMAP is set but no IO bitmap is assigned
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:49:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260612054915.2201-1-lirongqing@baidu.com> (raw)
From: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Outside the IOPL emulation path, the IO bitmap is always expected
to be allocated when TIF_IO_BITMAP is set. The paranoid WARN_ON_ONCE()
handles the case where the flag and the pointer got out of sync.
In this rare scenario, return early instead of continuing and
dereferencing a NULL pointer.
[Sohil Mehta: rephrased commit message]
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
---
Diff with v1: rephrased commit message
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 4c718f8..d5cd217 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -486,6 +486,7 @@ void native_tss_update_io_bitmap(void)
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!iobm)) {
clear_thread_flag(TIF_IO_BITMAP);
native_tss_invalidate_io_bitmap();
+ return;
}
/*
--
2.9.4
next reply other threads:[~2026-06-12 5:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-12 5:49 lirongqing [this message]
2026-06-12 14:34 ` Sohil Mehta
2026-06-13 3:01 ` 答复: [外部邮件] " Li,Rongqing
2026-06-13 6:59 ` Sohil Mehta
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