Re: [PATCH] PCI/MSI: Fix x86 VMs crash due to dereferencing NULL

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 04:21:55PM +0000, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
> 
> Moving pci_msi_ignore_mask to per MSI domain flag is causing a panic
> with SEV-SNP VMs under KVM while booting and initializing virtio-scsi
> driver as below :
> 
> ...
> [    9.854554] virtio_scsi virtio1: 4/0/0 default/read/poll queues
> [    9.855670] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
> [    9.856840] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> [    9.857695] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> [    9.858501] PGD 0 P4D 0
> [    9.858501] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> [    9.858501] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.14.0-next-20250326-snp-host-f2a41ff576cc #379 VOLUNTARY
> [    9.858501] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
> [    9.858501] RIP: 0010:msix_prepare_msi_desc+0x3c/0x90
> [    9.858501] Code: 89 f0 48 8b 52 20 66 81 4e 4c 01 01 c7 46 04 01 00 00 00 8b 8f b4 03 00 00 48 89 e5 89 4e 50 48 8b b7 b0 09 00 00 48 89 70 58 <8b> 0a 81 e1 00 00 40 00 75 25 0f b6 50 4d d0 ea 83 f2 01 83 e2 01
> [    9.858501] RSP: 0018:ffffa37f4002b898 EFLAGS: 00010202
> [    9.858501] RAX: ffffa37f4002b8c8 RBX: ffffa37f4002b8c8 RCX: 0000000000000017
> [    9.858501] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffa37f400b5000 RDI: ffff984802524000
> [    9.858501] RBP: ffffa37f4002b898 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: ffffa37f4002b854
> [    9.858501] R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000018 R12: ffff984802924000
> [    9.858501] R13: ffff984802524000 R14: ffff9848025240c8 R15: 0000000000000000
> [    9.858501] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff984bae657000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [    9.858501] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [    9.858501] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000800003c260000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
> [    9.858501] Call Trace:
> [    9.858501]  <TASK>
> [    9.858501]  msix_setup_interrupts+0x10e/0x290
> [    9.858501]  __pci_enable_msix_range+0x2ce/0x470
> [    9.858501]  pci_alloc_irq_vectors_affinity+0xb2/0x110
> [    9.858501]  vp_find_vqs_msix+0x228/0x530
> [    9.858501]  vp_find_vqs+0x41/0x290
> [    9.858501]  ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
> [    9.858501]  ? __dev_printk+0x39/0x80
> [    9.858501]  ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
> [    9.858501]  ? _dev_info+0x6f/0x90
> [    9.858501]  vp_modern_find_vqs+0x1c/0x70
> [    9.858501]  virtscsi_init+0x2d2/0x340
> [    9.858501]  ? __pfx_default_calc_sets+0x10/0x10
> [    9.858501]  virtscsi_probe+0x135/0x3c0
> [    9.858501]  virtio_dev_probe+0x1b6/0x2a0
> ...
> ...
> [    9.934826] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009
> 
> This is happening as x86 VMs only have x86_vector_domain (irq_domain)
> created by native_create_pci_msi_domain() and that does not have an
> associated msi_domain_info. Thus accessing msi_domain_info causes a
> kernel NULL pointer dereference during msix_setup_interrupts() and
> breaks x86 VMs.
> 
> In comparison, for native x86, there is irq domain hierarchy created
> by interrupt remapping logic either by AMD IOMMU (AMD-IR) or Intel
> DMAR (DMAR-MSI) and they have an associated msi_domain_info, so
> moving pci_msi_ignore_mask to a per MSI domain flag works for
> native x86.
> 
> Also, Hyper-V and Xen x86 VMs create "virtual" irq domains
> (XEN-MSI) or (HV-PCI-MSI) with their associated msi_domain_info,
> and they can also access pci_msi_ignore_mask as per MSI domain flag.
> 
> Fixes: c3164d2e0d18 ("PCI/MSI: Convert pci_msi_ignore_mask to per MSI domain flag")
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>

Sorry for the breakage.  Already fixed upstream by commit:

3ece3e8e5976 ("PCI/MSI: Handle the NOMASK flag correctly for all PCI/MSI backends")

From Thomas.

Regards, Roger.