[PATCH v7 02/14] KVM: s390: Do not free SCA if it was not allocated

From: Claudio Imbrenda

Date: Fri Jul 31 2026 - 09:02:18 EST


If VM creation fails early in kvm_arch_init_vm(), the cleanup code
tries to free up the SCA, even though the address is 0. Due to using
free_pages_exact(), only the first page is skipped, accidentally
freeing pages 1, 2, and 3.

Fix by checking whether the pointer is NULL before attempting to free
the SCA in sca_dispose().

Fixes: e72753ed1267 ("KVM: s390: Use ESCA instead of BSCA at VM init")
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index f86b4b0b356f..1b3290a5ad1a 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -3247,7 +3247,8 @@ static void kvm_s390_crypto_init(struct kvm *kvm)

static void sca_dispose(struct kvm *kvm)
{
- free_pages_exact(kvm->arch.sca, sizeof(*kvm->arch.sca));
+ if (kvm->arch.sca)
+ free_pages_exact(kvm->arch.sca, sizeof(*kvm->arch.sca));
kvm->arch.sca = NULL;
}

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