[PATCH 6/7] KVM: arm64: vgic: Stop the target vcpu when disabling LPIs
Marc Zyngier
maz at kernel.org
Thu Oct 15 03:05:38 PDT 2026
Disabling LPIs is pretty nasty, as it directly messes with the AP list
of the affected CPU, which could be running... This has the potential to
lead to really bad behaviours, and we should not be doing that.
Take example on the way the Active state is handled and simply pause the
the vcpu so that we are sure it is in a quiescent state, and the state be
safely manipulated.
Nobody has any expectation of performance for this anyway.
Fixes: 96085b949672d ("KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Retire pending interrupts on disabling LPIs")
Co-developed-by: Oliver Upton <oupton at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
index 5913a20d83019..f5bd29fbe3a90 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
@@ -303,9 +303,19 @@ static void vgic_mmio_write_v3r_ctlr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
if (ctlr != GICR_CTLR_ENABLE_LPIS)
return;
+ /*
+ * Yes, disabling LPIs is painful, since it can be done from
+ * a *remote* vcpu! So let's not take any chance, and make
+ * sure that the target vCPU has written their LRs back to the
+ * irq structures, and release any reference they would have.
+ *
+ * If it hurts, don't do it.
+ */
+ kvm_pause_vcpu(vcpu);
vgic_flush_pending_lpis(vcpu);
vgic_its_invalidate_all_caches(vcpu->kvm);
atomic_set_release(&vgic_cpu->ctlr, 0);
+ kvm_resume_vcpu(vcpu);
} else {
ctlr = atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&vgic_cpu->ctlr, 0,
GICR_CTLR_ENABLE_LPIS);
--
2.47.3
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