Commit 33fd0ccd2590 for kernel
commit 33fd0ccd2590b470b65adcca288615ad3b5e3e06
Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date: Sun May 3 19:19:32 2026 +0200
KVM: x86: Do IRR scan in __kvm_apic_update_irr even if PIR is empty
Fall back to apic_find_highest_vector() when PID.ON is set but PIR
turns out to be empty, to correctly report the highest pending interrupt
from the existing IRR.
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.
Fixes: b41f8638b9d3 ("KVM: VMX: Isolate pure loads from atomic XCHG when processing PIR")
Reported-by: Farrah Chen <farrah.chen@intel.com>
Analyzed-by: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260428070349.1633238-1-chenyi.qiang@intel.com/T/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260503201703.108231-2-pbonzini@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index e3ec4d8607c1..5ee14d6bc288 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);