Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: ioapic: Fix level-triggered EOI and userspace IOAPIC reconfigure race

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Dec 07 2022 - 04:43:03 EST


On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 09:13 +0000, Adamos Ttofari wrote:
> When split-irqchip is used KVM uses ioapic_handled_vectors to identify
> which vectors require an exit to userspace IOAPIC. Unfortunately, when the
> IOAPIC is reconfigured while the interrupt is being handled, it will use
> the newest configuration; therefore, the EOI will not be delivered to
> IOAPIC.
>
> A previous commit 0fc5a36dd6b3
> ("KVM: x86: ioapic: Fix level-triggered EOI and IOAPIC reconfigure race")
> fixed the race for kernel ioapic, but the issue still persists for
> userspace IOAPIC:
>
> 1) Userspace IOAPIC sends a level triggered interrupt to VCPU0.
> 2) VCPU0's handler reconfigures the IOAPIC to route the interrupts to
> VCPU1. (This can cause userspace IOAPIC to commit a new routing table,
> eventually leading KVM to unset the vector in ioapic_handled_vectors)
> 3) VCPU0 triggers an EOI, and it's not delivered to userspace IOAPIC
> because the vector bit is not set in ioapic_handled_vectors.
> 4) The loss of EOI, leaves remote_irr in IOAPIC set. Eventually blocking
> new interrupts.
>
> To avoid the above scenario, we should apply a similar fix like
> commit 0fc5a36dd6b3 ("KVM: x86: ioapic: Fix level-triggered EOI and IOAPIC
> reconfigure race") Which is to add all pending and running vectors to
> ioapic_handled_vectors.
>
> Fixes: 0fc5a36dd6b3 ("KVM: x86: ioapic: Fix level-triggered EOI and IOAPIC reconfigure race")
>
> Signed-off-by: Adamos Ttofari <attofari@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

This should fix https://gitlab.com/kvm-unit-tests/kvm-unit-tests/-/issues/1
shouldn't it?

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