[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 051/129] KVM: ARM: vgic: plug irq injection race

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri May 22 08:57:16 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

commit 71afaba4a2e98bb7bdeba5078370ab43d46e67a1 upstream.

As it stands, nothing prevents userspace from injecting an interrupt
before the guest's GIC is actually initialized.

This goes unnoticed so far (as everything is pretty much statically
allocated), but ends up exploding in a spectacular way once we switch
to a more dynamic allocation (the GIC data structure isn't there yet).

The fix is to test for the "ready" flag in the VGIC distributor before
trying to inject the interrupt. Note that in order to avoid breaking
userspace, we have to ignore what is essentially an error.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao at linaro.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: used shannon's backport to 3.14 ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
index 98160610fe56..b224b729cd0f 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
@@ -1387,7 +1387,8 @@ out:
 int kvm_vgic_inject_irq(struct kvm *kvm, int cpuid, unsigned int irq_num,
 			bool level)
 {
-	if (vgic_update_irq_state(kvm, cpuid, irq_num, level))
+	if (likely(vgic_initialized(kvm)) &&
+	    vgic_update_irq_state(kvm, cpuid, irq_num, level))
 		vgic_kick_vcpus(kvm);
 
 	return 0;




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