[PATCH v2] RISC-V: KVM: Fix use-after-free in kvm_riscv_aia_aplic_has_attr()

Jiakai Xu xujiakai2025 at iscas.ac.cn
Mon Mar 2 00:53:12 PST 2026


Fuzzer reports a KASAN use-after-free bug triggered by a race
between KVM_HAS_DEVICE_ATTR and KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR ioctls on the AIA
device. The root cause is that aia_has_attr() invokes
kvm_riscv_aia_aplic_has_attr() without holding dev->kvm->lock, while
a concurrent aia_set_attr() may call aia_init() under that lock. When
aia_init() fails after kvm_riscv_aia_aplic_init() has succeeded, it
calls kvm_riscv_aia_aplic_cleanup() in its fail_cleanup_imsics path,
which frees both aplic_state and aplic_state->irqs. The concurrent
has_attr path can then dereference the freed aplic->irqs in
aplic_read_pending():
	irqd = &aplic->irqs[irq];   /* UAF here */

KASAN report:
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in aplic_read_pending
             arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c:119 [inline]
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in aplic_read_pending_word
             arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c:351 [inline]
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in aplic_mmio_read_offset
             arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c:406
 Read of size 8 at addr ff600000ba965d58 by task 9498
 Call Trace:
  aplic_read_pending arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c:119 [inline]
  aplic_read_pending_word arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c:351 [inline]
  aplic_mmio_read_offset arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c:406
  kvm_riscv_aia_aplic_has_attr arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c:566
  aia_has_attr arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c:469
 allocated by task 9473:
  kvm_riscv_aia_aplic_init arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c:583
  aia_init arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c:248 [inline]
  aia_set_attr arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c:334
 freed by task 9473:
  kvm_riscv_aia_aplic_cleanup arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c:644
  aia_init arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c:292 [inline]
  aia_set_attr arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c:334

Fix this race by acquiring dev->kvm->lock in aia_has_attr() before
calling kvm_riscv_aia_aplic_has_attr(), consistent with the locking
pattern used in aia_get_attr() and aia_set_attr().

Fixes: 289a007b98b06d ("RISC-V: KVM: Expose APLIC registers as attributes of AIA irqchip")
Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <jiakaiPeanut at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025 at iscas.ac.cn>
---
V1 -> V2:
- Fixed the race by adding locking in aia_has_attr() instead of
  introducing a new validation function, as suggested by Anup Patel.
---
 arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c
index b195a93add1ce..ef944d7097d29 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c
@@ -466,7 +466,9 @@ static int aia_has_attr(struct kvm_device *dev, struct kvm_device_attr *attr)
 		}
 		break;
 	case KVM_DEV_RISCV_AIA_GRP_APLIC:
+		mutex_lock(&dev->kvm->lock);
 		return kvm_riscv_aia_aplic_has_attr(dev->kvm, attr->attr);
+		mutex_unlock(&dev->kvm->lock);
 	case KVM_DEV_RISCV_AIA_GRP_IMSIC:
 		return kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr(dev->kvm, attr->attr);
 	}
-- 
2.34.1




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