[PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: Fix potential UAF in kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr()

Jiakai Xu xujiakai2025 at iscas.ac.cn
Wed Mar 4 00:08:04 PST 2026


The KVM_DEV_RISCV_AIA_GRP_APLIC branch of aia_has_attr() was identified
to have a race condition with concurrent KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR ioctls,
leading to a use-after-free bug.

Upon analyzing the code, it was discovered that the
KVM_DEV_RISCV_AIA_GRP_IMSIC branch of aia_has_attr() suffers from the same
lack of synchronization. It invokes kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr() without
holding dev->kvm->lock.

While aia_has_attr() is running, a concurrent aia_set_attr() could call
aia_init() under the dev->kvm->lock. If aia_init() fails, it may trigger
kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_imsic_cleanup(), which frees imsic_state. Without proper
locking, kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr() could attempt to access imsic_state
while it is being deallocated.

Although this specific path has not yet been reported by a fuzzer, it
is logically identical to the APLIC issue. Fix this by acquiring the
dev->kvm->lock before calling kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr(), ensuring
consistency with the locking pattern used for other AIA attribute groups.

Fixes: 5463091a51cf ("RISC-V: KVM: Expose IMSIC registers as attributes of AIA irqchip")
Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025 at iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <jiakaiPeanut at gmail.com>
---
 arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c
index fb901947aefe..9a45c85239fe 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c
@@ -471,7 +471,10 @@ static int aia_has_attr(struct kvm_device *dev, struct kvm_device_attr *attr)
 		mutex_unlock(&dev->kvm->lock);
 		break;
 	case KVM_DEV_RISCV_AIA_GRP_IMSIC:
-		return kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr(dev->kvm, attr->attr);
+		mutex_lock(&dev->kvm->lock);
+		r = kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr(dev->kvm, attr->attr);
+		mutex_unlock(&dev->kvm->lock);
+		break;
 	}
 
 	return r;
-- 
2.34.1




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