From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Zhang Haoyu <zhanghy@sangfor.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
Zhong Wang <wangzhong.c0ss4ck@bytedance.com>,
Xuanqing Shi <shixuanqing.11@bytedance.com>,
Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: Destroy the PIC and IOAPIC before destroying vCPUs
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 02:00:27 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260706180025.2735341-3-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260705045450.1325048-2-bestswngs@gmail.com>
kvm_ioapic_eoi_inject_work() re-delivers a throttled level-triggered
interrupt via kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic(), which walks kvm->arch.apic_map
and dereferences the destination vCPU's APIC. The work is cancelled only
in kvm_ioapic_destroy(), which runs after kvm_destroy_vcpus() has freed
the vCPUs and their APICs. kvm_free_lapic() does not rebuild apic_map, so
the map is left with dangling pointers, and a work item that fires during
that window reads freed memory:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic_fast (arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:1248)
Read of size 8 by task kworker/3:1
Workqueue: events kvm_ioapic_eoi_inject_work
__kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic_fast (arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:1248)
__kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic (arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:1343)
ioapic_service (arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c:492)
kvm_ioapic_eoi_inject_work (arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c:525)
process_one_work
Freed by task 153:
kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy (arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:12871)
kvm_destroy_vcpus (virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:489)
kvm_arch_destroy_vm (arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:13402)
kvm_destroy_vm (virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1302)
kvm_vm_release (virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1363)
A guest arms the work by EOIing a level-triggered pin 10000 times in a
row, so the window is reachable from guest ring 0 whenever its VM is torn
down soon after.
Destroy the in-kernel PIC and IOAPIC in kvm_arch_pre_destroy_vm(),
before vCPUs are freed, so the eoi_inject work is cancelled while the
target APICs are still valid. This also unregisters the PIC/IOAPIC
MMIO devices while the KVM buses still exist; kvm_destroy_vm() tears
the buses down right after kvm_free_irq_routing() and before
kvm_arch_destroy_vm(), so the previous kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev() in
kvm_ioapic_destroy() was a no-op.
Fixes: 184564efae4d ("kvm: ioapic: conditionally delay irq delivery duringeoi broadcast")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/88ba60ad32ba851426a3f6590b0e402210991b4a.e33b58ce.0008.4e1c.aa62.c1024b242cbf@bytedance.com/
Suggested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Zhong Wang <wangzhong.c0ss4ck@bytedance.com>
Reported-by: Xuanqing Shi <shixuanqing.11@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260705045450.1325048-2-bestswngs@gmail.com/
v2:
- Per Kai's suggestion, instead of adding a kvm_ioapic_pre_destroy()
helper that only cancels the eoi_inject work, move
kvm_pic_destroy()/kvm_ioapic_destroy() as a whole into
kvm_arch_pre_destroy_vm(). This also fixes the stale
kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev() Kai pointed out.
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index fd1c4a36b593..5925da351a9a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -13370,10 +13370,14 @@ void kvm_arch_pre_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
* Stop all background workers and kthreads before destroying vCPUs, as
* iterating over vCPUs in a different task while vCPUs are being freed
* is unsafe, i.e. will lead to use-after-free. The PIT also needs to
- * be stopped before IRQ routing is freed.
+ * be stopped before IRQ routing is freed. The PIC and IOAPIC need to
+ * be destroyed here too, for the same reason, and because they must
+ * be destroyed before the KVM buses are torn down.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC
kvm_free_pit(kvm);
+ kvm_pic_destroy(kvm);
+ kvm_ioapic_destroy(kvm);
#endif
kvm_mmu_pre_destroy_vm(kvm);
@@ -13400,10 +13404,6 @@ void kvm_arch_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
perf_release_mediated_pmu();
kvm_destroy_vcpus(kvm);
kvm_free_msr_filter(srcu_dereference_check(kvm->arch.msr_filter, &kvm->srcu, 1));
-#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC
- kvm_pic_destroy(kvm);
- kvm_ioapic_destroy(kvm);
-#endif
kvfree(rcu_dereference_check(kvm->arch.apic_map, 1));
kfree(srcu_dereference_check(kvm->arch.pmu_event_filter, &kvm->srcu, 1));
kvm_mmu_uninit_vm(kvm);
--
2.54.0
next parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-06 18:01 UTC|newest]
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2026-07-06 18:00 ` Weiming Shi [this message]
2026-07-06 18:20 ` [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: Destroy the PIC and IOAPIC before destroying vCPUs Sean Christopherson
2026-07-06 22:06 ` Huang, Kai
2026-07-06 22:10 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-07-06 22:33 ` Huang, Kai
2026-07-06 18:20 ` sashiko-bot
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