Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: Fix NULL pointer dereference in SBI v0.1 SEND_IPI handler

[Anup Patel]

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The SBI v0.1 SEND_IPI handler iterates over the hart mask and calls
> kvm_get_vcpu_by_id() to find the target vcpu for each set bit. When a
> guest provides a hart mask containing bits for non-existent vcpu_ids,
> kvm_get_vcpu_by_id() returns NULL, which is then unconditionally
> dereferenced by kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_interrupt(), causing a kernel crash.
>
> Fix this by adding a NULL check before dereferencing the return value.
> If the target vcpu is not found, skip it and break out of the loop.
>
> Fixes: a046c2d8578c ("RISC-V: KVM: Reorganize SBI code by moving SBI v0.1 to its own file")
> Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <jiakaiPeanut@xxxxxxxxx>
> Assisted-by: OpenClaw:DeepSeek-V3.2
> ---
>  arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_v01.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_v01.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_v01.c
> index 188d5ea5b3b85..98ecfcb2469e6 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_v01.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_v01.c
> @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ static int kvm_sbi_ext_v01_handler(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
>
>                 for_each_set_bit(i, &hmask, BITS_PER_LONG) {
>                         rvcpu = kvm_get_vcpu_by_id(vcpu->kvm, i);
> +                       if (!rvcpu)
> +                               break;

Instead of break it is better to continue here so that non-existent
VCPUs are ignored.

Regards,
Anup