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From: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
To: seanjc@google.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, tglx@kernel.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
	x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+9dcd0a11dc9703a49511@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Handle -1 return from kvm_cpu_get_interrupt
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:30:39 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260712090039.36038-1-kartikey406@gmail.com> (raw)

kvm_check_and_inject_events() checks for a pending PIC
interrupt using kvm_cpu_has_injectable_intr() and then
fetches it using kvm_cpu_get_interrupt(). These two
operations are not atomic with respect to vpic->output.

Between the check and fetch, another thread running on
a different CPU can call kvm_pic_read_irq() which sets
output=0 before taking pic_lock(), making it immediately
visible to all other threads:

  Thread A: kvm_cpu_has_injectable_intr() reads output=1
  Thread B: kvm_pic_read_irq() sets output=0 before lock
  Thread A: kvm_cpu_get_interrupt() reads output=0
  Thread A: returns -1, WARN_ON_ONCE fires

The -1 return is a valid result indicating another thread
already consumed the interrupt between the check and fetch.
Replace WARN_ON_ONCE with a graceful goto out to handle
this race condition correctly.

Reported-by: syzbot+9dcd0a11dc9703a49511@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9dcd0a11dc9703a49511
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
---
 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 afcac1042947..36bf479a1164 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -10797,11 +10797,11 @@ static int kvm_check_and_inject_events(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 		if (r) {
 			int irq = kvm_cpu_get_interrupt(vcpu);
 
-			if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(irq == -1)) {
-				kvm_queue_interrupt(vcpu, irq, false);
-				kvm_x86_call(inject_irq)(vcpu, false);
-				WARN_ON(kvm_x86_call(interrupt_allowed)(vcpu, true) < 0);
-			}
+			if (irq == -1)
+				goto out;
+			kvm_queue_interrupt(vcpu, irq, false);
+			kvm_x86_call(inject_irq)(vcpu, false);
+			WARN_ON(kvm_x86_call(interrupt_allowed)(vcpu, true) < 0);
 		}
 		if (kvm_cpu_has_injectable_intr(vcpu))
 			kvm_x86_call(enable_irq_window)(vcpu);
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-12  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-12  9:00 Deepanshu Kartikey [this message]
2026-07-12  9:11 ` [PATCH] KVM: x86: Handle -1 return from kvm_cpu_get_interrupt sashiko-bot

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