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x86/ioperm: Prevent NULL dereference on theoretical missing IO bitmap
authorLi RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:01:15 +0000 (15:01 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:40:45 +0000 (09:40 +0200)
commit2d36d3b451a94899db9c965adde15492ffe6027a
tree3702adaccd3016bf1b0a46089866a3219e83ff55
parent8cd9520d35a6c38db6567e97dd93b1f11f185dc6
x86/ioperm: Prevent NULL dereference on theoretical missing IO bitmap

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 theoretical scenario, which presumes some other bug in the
code that triggers the WARN_ON_ONCe(), return early, instead of
continuing and dereferencing a NULL pointer.

[ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ]

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615070115.4720-1-lirongqing@baidu.com
arch/x86/kernel/process.c