[PATCH v3 2/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Reset redistributors after failed region setup
From: Karl Mehltretter <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-22 09:53:59
Also in:
kvm, kvmarm, linux-kselftest, lkml, stable
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), kernel virtual machine for arm64 (kvm/arm64), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Marc Zyngier, Oliver Upton, Linus Torvalds
A REDIST_REGION write can fail after redistributor iodevs have been
registered. The existing rollback unregisters only vCPUs processed before
the failure, leaving their cached assignments and free_index values intact.
A retry then skips the unregistered iodevs.
Userspace has no guarantee that redistributor assignments survive a failed
region update. On failure, unregister every redistributor iodev and clear
every cached vCPU assignment. Reset all region free_index values and free
the newly inserted region. The next successful region update rebuilds all
possible assignments in region-index order.
While a vCPU is being created, its redistributor iodev may be registered
before the vCPU is visible to kvm_for_each_vcpu(). Reject REDIST and
REDIST_REGION writes while creation is in flight, so rollback can reset every
assignment.
The registration failure for the current vCPU is already undone by
vgic_register_redist_iodev().
Fixes: c011f4ea106b ("KVM: arm/arm64: Check vcpu redist base before registering an iodev")
Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <redacted>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-kvm-device.c | 20 ++++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-kvm-device.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-kvm-device.c
index 90be99443df3..48c3b2a48c20 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-kvm-device.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-kvm-device.c@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ static int kvm_vgic_addr(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_device_attr *attr, bool wri phys_addr_t *addr_ptr, alignment, size; u64 undef_value = VGIC_ADDR_UNDEF; u64 addr; + bool redist_write = write && + (attr->attr == KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST || + attr->attr == KVM_VGIC_V3_ADDR_TYPE_REDIST_REGION); int r; /* Reading a redistributor region addr implies getting the index */
@@ -104,6 +107,19 @@ static int kvm_vgic_addr(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_device_attr *attr, bool wri if (get_user(addr, uaddr)) return -EFAULT; + /* + * A vCPU can have an RD assignment before it is visible to + * kvm_for_each_vcpu(). Reject redistributor updates while vCPU creation + * is in progress, so rollback can reset every assignment. + */ + if (redist_write) { + mutex_lock(&kvm->lock); + if (kvm->created_vcpus != atomic_read(&kvm->online_vcpus)) { + r = -EBUSY; + goto out_unlock_kvm; + } + } + /* * Since we can't hold config_lock while registering the redistributor * iodevs, take the slots_lock immediately.
@@ -201,6 +217,10 @@ static int kvm_vgic_addr(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_device_attr *attr, bool wri out: mutex_unlock(&kvm->slots_lock); +out_unlock_kvm: + if (redist_write) + mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock); + if (!r && !write) r = put_user(addr, uaddr);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
index 22897ce64dbf..6c009deb11d4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c@@ -855,6 +855,40 @@ void vgic_unregister_redist_iodev(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(vcpu->kvm, KVM_MMIO_BUS, &rd_dev->dev); } +static void vgic_reset_redist_iodev(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) +{ + struct vgic_cpu *vgic_cpu = &vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu; + + lockdep_assert_held(&vcpu->kvm->arch.config_lock); + + vgic_cpu->rdreg = NULL; + vgic_cpu->rd_iodev.base_addr = VGIC_ADDR_UNDEF; +} + +static void vgic_v3_rollback_redist_region(struct kvm *kvm, u32 index) +{ + struct vgic_redist_region *rdreg, *iter; + struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu; + unsigned long c; + + lockdep_assert_held(&kvm->slots_lock); + + rdreg = vgic_v3_rdist_region_from_index(kvm, index); + + kvm_for_each_vcpu(c, vcpu, kvm) + vgic_unregister_redist_iodev(vcpu); + + guard(mutex)(&kvm->arch.config_lock); + + kvm_for_each_vcpu(c, vcpu, kvm) + vgic_reset_redist_iodev(vcpu); + + list_for_each_entry(iter, &kvm->arch.vgic.rd_regions, list) + iter->free_index = 0; + + vgic_v3_free_redist_region(kvm, rdreg); +} + static int vgic_register_all_redist_iodevs(struct kvm *kvm) { struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
@@ -869,16 +903,6 @@ static int vgic_register_all_redist_iodevs(struct kvm *kvm) break; } - if (ret) { - /* The current c failed, so iterate over the previous ones. */ - int i; - - for (i = 0; i < c; i++) { - vcpu = kvm_get_vcpu(kvm, i); - vgic_unregister_redist_iodev(vcpu); - } - } - return ret; }
@@ -986,6 +1010,8 @@ int vgic_v3_set_redist_base(struct kvm *kvm, u32 index, u64 addr, u32 count) { int ret; + lockdep_assert_held(&kvm->lock); + mutex_lock(&kvm->arch.config_lock); ret = vgic_v3_alloc_redist_region(kvm, index, addr, count); mutex_unlock(&kvm->arch.config_lock);
@@ -998,12 +1024,7 @@ int vgic_v3_set_redist_base(struct kvm *kvm, u32 index, u64 addr, u32 count) */ ret = vgic_register_all_redist_iodevs(kvm); if (ret) { - struct vgic_redist_region *rdreg; - - mutex_lock(&kvm->arch.config_lock); - rdreg = vgic_v3_rdist_region_from_index(kvm, index); - vgic_v3_free_redist_region(kvm, rdreg); - mutex_unlock(&kvm->arch.config_lock); + vgic_v3_rollback_redist_region(kvm, index); return ret; }
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2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)