[PULL 23/27] KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Prevent userspace from changing doorbell affinity

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Mon Nov 13 01:17:48 PST 2017


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

We so far allocate the doorbell interrupts without taking any
special measure regarding the affinity of these interrupts. We
simply move them around as required when the vcpu gets scheduled
on a different CPU.

But that's counting without userspace (and the evil irqbalance) that
can try and move the VPE interrupt around, causing the ITS code
to emit VMOVP commands and remap the doorbell to another redistributor.
Worse, this can happen while the vcpu is running, causing all kind
of trouble if the VPE is already resident, and we end-up in UNPRED
territory.

So let's take a definitive action and prevent userspace from messing
with us. This is just a matter of adding IRQ_NO_BALANCING to the
set of flags we already have, letting the kernel in sole control
of the affinity.

Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
---
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v4.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v4.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
index c9cec01008c2..bf874dd01fc0 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v4.c
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 
 #include "vgic.h"
 
+#define DB_IRQ_FLAGS	(IRQ_NOAUTOEN | IRQ_DISABLE_UNLAZY | IRQ_NO_BALANCING)
+
 static irqreturn_t vgic_v4_doorbell_handler(int irq, void *info)
 {
 	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = info;
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ int vgic_v4_init(struct kvm *kvm)
 		 * doorbell could kick us out of the guest too
 		 * early...
 		 */
-		irq_set_status_flags(irq, IRQ_NOAUTOEN | IRQ_DISABLE_UNLAZY);
+		irq_set_status_flags(irq, DB_IRQ_FLAGS);
 		ret = request_irq(irq, vgic_v4_doorbell_handler,
 				  0, "vcpu", vcpu);
 		if (ret) {
@@ -121,7 +123,7 @@ void vgic_v4_teardown(struct kvm *kvm)
 		struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kvm_get_vcpu(kvm, i);
 		int irq = its_vm->vpes[i]->irq;
 
-		irq_clear_status_flags(irq, IRQ_NOAUTOEN | IRQ_DISABLE_UNLAZY);
+		irq_clear_status_flags(irq, DB_IRQ_FLAGS);
 		free_irq(irq, vcpu);
 	}
 
-- 
2.14.2




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