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[PATCH] KVM: Nullify irqfd->producer when add_producer() fails

From: leixiang <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-22 09:04:13
Also in: kvm, lkml, stable
Subsystem: kernel virtual machine for powerpc (kvm/powerpc), kernel virtual machine for x86 (kvm/x86), linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Sean Christopherson, Paolo Bonzini, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

The x86 and powerpc add_producer() callbacks set irqfd->producer before the
fallible setup and never clear it on error.  The bypass manager doesn't
register a producer whose add_producer() failed -- producer->eventfd is
left NULL, so the later unregister early-returns and del_producer() is
never called -- so nothing ever drops the pointer.

For VFIO PCI the producer is embedded in struct vfio_pci_irq_ctx and freed
when the vector is disabled, after which a routing update dereferences the
dangling pointer via kvm_arch_update_irqfd_routing().

Nullify irqfd->producer on the error paths.

Fixes: 77e1b8332d1d ("KVM: x86: Decouple device assignment from IRQ bypass")
Fixes: c57875f5f9be ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Enable IRQ bypass")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: leixiang <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 4 +++-
 arch/x86/kvm/irq.c           | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 61dbeea317f3..14919b76fb32 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -6114,9 +6114,11 @@ static int kvmppc_irq_bypass_add_producer_hv(struct irq_bypass_consumer *cons,
 	irqfd->producer = prod;

 	ret = kvmppc_set_passthru_irq(irqfd->kvm, prod->irq, irqfd->gsi);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
 		pr_info("kvmppc_set_passthru_irq (irq %d, gsi %d) fails: %d\n",
 			prod->irq, irqfd->gsi, ret);
+		irqfd->producer = NULL;
+	}

 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.c b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.c
index 8c62c6d4d5c1..cb8ac4b9b0d7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.c
@@ -488,8 +488,10 @@ int kvm_arch_irq_bypass_add_producer(struct irq_bypass_consumer *cons,

 	if (irqfd->irq_entry.type == KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_MSI) {
 		ret = kvm_pi_update_irte(irqfd, &irqfd->irq_entry);
-		if (ret)
+		if (ret) {
 			kvm->arch.nr_possible_bypass_irqs--;
+			irqfd->producer = NULL;
+		}
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irq(&kvm->irqfds.lock);

--
2.45.0
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