Re: [PATCH] PCI: Fix pcibios_update_irq misuse of irq number

[Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>]

On 02/02/15 15:57, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:
>> pcibios_update_irq writes an irq number into the config space
>> of a given PCI device, but ignores the fact that this number
>> is a virtual interrupt number, which might be a very different
>> value from what the underlying hardware is using.
>>
>> The obvious fix is to fetch the HW interrupt number from the
>> corresponding irq_data structure. This is slightly complicated
>> by the fact that this interrupt might be services by a stacked
>> domain.
>>
>> This has been tested on KVM with kvmtool.
>>
>> Reported-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
>> Tested-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> 
> Jiang, are you OK with this patch as-is now, since it isn't used on x86?
> 
> Marc, Lorenzo, I assume this actually fixes a bug.  Can we get any
> more details about what happens when you hit the bug, and how you
> reproduced it (what platform, driver, etc.)?

It definitely fixes a bug. This has been found by running a KVM guest
using kvmtool PCI emulation, where the following things happen:

- Guest programs a virtual (bogus) interrupt number in the PCI device
config space (virtio disk in this case)
- kvmtool uses that interrupt number as is, without any other form of
validation
- Either the injection fails (because the interrupt is out of the range
of the virtual interrupt controller) -> virtio PCI device goes dead
- or the injection succeeds because this is a valid interrupt number,
but signals an unrelated peripheral -> virtio PCI device goes dead.

This can be trivially reproduced on any ARM PCI system that requires
legacy interrupts (i.e. no MSI support), and that uses a GIC interrupt
controller. Doing it in a VM is just much more convenient.

Hope this helps,

	M.
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