[PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: x86: Always report highest IRR from __kvm_apic_update_irr()

[PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: x86: Always report highest IRR from __kvm_apic_update_irr()

[Chenyi Qiang]

Compute *max_irr from the existing IRR in __kvm_apic_update_irr() even
when pi_harvest_pir() returns false (PIR is empty), instead of leaving
*max_irr uninitialized at -1.

In a nested VM stress test, the following WARNING fires in
vmx_check_nested_events() when kvm_cpu_has_interrupt() reports a pending
interrupt but the subsequent kvm_apic_has_interrupt() (which invokes
vmx_sync_pir_to_irr() again) returns -1:

  WARNING: CPU: 99 PID: 57767 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c:4449 vmx_check_nested_events+0x6bf/0x6e0 [kvm_intel]
  Call Trace:
   kvm_check_and_inject_events
   vcpu_enter_guest.constprop.0
   vcpu_run
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl
   __x64_sys_ioctl
   do_syscall_64
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe

The root cause is a race between vmx_sync_pir_to_irr() on the target vCPU
and __vmx_deliver_posted_interrupt() on a sender vCPU.  The sender
performs two individually-atomic operations that are not a single
transaction:

  1. pi_test_and_set_pir(vector)  -- sets the PIR bit
  2. pi_test_and_set_on()         -- sets PID.ON

The following interleaving triggers the bug:

  Sender vCPU (IPI):              Target vCPU (1st sync_pir_to_irr):
  B1: set PIR[vector]
                                  A1: pi_clear_on()
                                  A2: pi_harvest_pir() -> sees B1 bit
                                  A3: xchg() -> consumes bit, PIR=0
                                      (1st sync returns correct max_irr)
  B2: set PID.ON = 1

                                  Target vCPU (2nd sync_pir_to_irr):
                                  C1: pi_test_on() -> TRUE (from B2)
                                  C2: pi_clear_on() -> ON=0
                                  C3: pi_harvest_pir() -> PIR empty
                                  C4: *max_irr = -1, early return
                                      IRR NOT SCANNED

The interrupt is not lost (it resides in the IRR from the first sync and
is recovered on the next vcpu_enter_guest() iteration), but the incorrect
max_irr causes a spurious WARNING and a wasted L2 VM-Enter/VM-Exit cycle.

Fix this by scanning the IRR via apic_find_highest_vector() in
__kvm_apic_update_irr() when PIR is empty, so that *max_irr always
reflects the true highest pending interrupt regardless of PIR state.

Fixes: b41f8638b9d3 ("KVM: VMX: Isolate pure loads from atomic XCHG when processing PIR")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Farrah Chen <farrah.chen@intel.com>
Assisted-by: GitHub Copilot:Claude Opus 4.6
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index 9381c58d4c85..e9f1e5451160 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -669,12 +669,14 @@ bool __kvm_apic_update_irr(unsigned long *pir, void *regs, int *max_irr)
 	u32 irr_val, prev_irr_val;
 	int max_updated_irr;
 
+	if (!pi_harvest_pir(pir, pir_vals)) {
+		*max_irr = apic_find_highest_vector(regs + APIC_IRR);
+		return false;
+	}
+
 	max_updated_irr = -1;
 	*max_irr = -1;
 
-	if (!pi_harvest_pir(pir, pir_vals))
-		return false;
-
 	for (i = vec = 0; i <= 7; i++, vec += 32) {
 		u32 *p_irr = (u32 *)(regs + APIC_IRR + i * 0x10);
 
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