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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
	Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] KVM: arm64: vgic: Stop the target vcpu when disabling LPIs
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:05:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261015100539.1011760-7-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261015100539.1011760-1-maz@kernel.org>

Disabling LPIs is pretty nasty, as it directly messes with the AP list
of the affected CPU, which could be running... This has the potential to
lead to really bad behaviours, and we should not be doing that.

Take example on the way the Active state is handled and simply pause the
the vcpu so that we are sure it is in a quiescent state, and the state be
safely manipulated.

Nobody has any expectation of performance for this anyway.

Fixes: 96085b949672d ("KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Retire pending interrupts on disabling LPIs")
Co-developed-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
index 5913a20d83019..f5bd29fbe3a90 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
@@ -303,9 +303,19 @@ static void vgic_mmio_write_v3r_ctlr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 		if (ctlr != GICR_CTLR_ENABLE_LPIS)
 			return;
 
+		/*
+		 * Yes, disabling LPIs is painful, since it can be done from
+		 * a *remote* vcpu! So let's not take any chance, and make
+		 * sure that the target vCPU has written their LRs back to the
+		 * irq structures, and release any reference they would have.
+		 *
+		 * If it hurts, don't do it.
+		 */
+		kvm_pause_vcpu(vcpu);
 		vgic_flush_pending_lpis(vcpu);
 		vgic_its_invalidate_all_caches(vcpu->kvm);
 		atomic_set_release(&vgic_cpu->ctlr, 0);
+		kvm_resume_vcpu(vcpu);
 	} else {
 		ctlr = atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&vgic_cpu->ctlr, 0,
 					      GICR_CTLR_ENABLE_LPIS);
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-15 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-15 10:05 [PATCH 0/7] KVM: arm64: Fix cross-CPU vcpu pausing Marc Zyngier
2026-10-15 10:05 ` [PATCH 1/7] KVM: arm64: nv: Move L2->L1 switch on interrupt early Marc Zyngier
2026-10-15 10:16   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-15 10:05 ` [PATCH 2/7] KVM: arm64: Move OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE publication past context being saved Marc Zyngier
2026-10-15 12:57   ` Fuad Tabba
2026-10-15 13:52     ` Marc Zyngier
2026-10-15 13:59       ` Fuad Tabba
2026-10-15 10:05 ` [PATCH 3/7] KVM: arm64: Move IN_GUEST_MODE ahead of state being loaded Marc Zyngier
2026-10-15 10:05 ` [PATCH 4/7] KVM: arm64: Turn vcpu->arch.pause into a counter Marc Zyngier
2026-10-15 10:05 ` [PATCH 5/7] KVM: arm64: Add helpers to halt a vCPU Marc Zyngier
2026-10-15 12:57   ` Fuad Tabba
2026-10-15 13:13     ` Marc Zyngier
2026-10-15 13:15       ` Fuad Tabba
2026-10-15 10:05 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2026-10-15 10:05 ` [PATCH 7/7] KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Stop the VM when handling MOVALL Marc Zyngier
2026-10-15 12:57 ` [PATCH 0/7] KVM: arm64: Fix cross-CPU vcpu pausing Fuad Tabba
2026-10-15 13:30   ` Marc Zyngier

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