[PATCH v3] irqchip/gic-v4: Don't advertise VLPIs if no ITS is probed

From: Mostafa Saleh

Date: Tue May 26 2026 - 08:54:28 EST


When accidentally setting “kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=1” on the wrong
setup that has no MSI controller device tree node (it exists but
not used) and GICv4, it caused a panic as “gic_domain” is NULL and
the kernel attempted to access its ops.

Originally, I hit this on an older kernel, but was able to reproduce
it on upstream with Qemu by hacking this unreasonable setup.

[ 33.145536] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000028
[ 33.145658] Mem abort info:
[ 33.145751] ESR = 0x0000000096000006
...
[ 33.154057] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 295 Comm: lkvm-static Not tainted 7.1.0-rc4-ge3f15ad3970e #5 PREEMPT
[ 33.156922] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[ 33.158780] pstate: 81402005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 33.160340] pc : __irq_domain_instantiate+0x1d4/0x578
[ 33.162602] lr : __irq_domain_instantiate+0x1cc/0x578

Set vLPI support to false at init time if the host has no ITS, so it
propagates properly to kvm_vgic_global_state.has_gicv4.

Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v3: Reword subject based on Marc feedback.
v2: Fix the issue at construction as Marc suggested.

---
drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
index 291d7668cc8d..d02cb9c17c0b 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
@@ -5837,6 +5837,7 @@ int __init its_init(struct fwnode_handle *handle, struct rdists *rdists,
its_acpi_probe();

if (list_empty(&its_nodes)) {
+ rdists->has_vlpis = false;
pr_warn("ITS: No ITS available, not enabling LPIs\n");
return -ENXIO;
}
--
2.54.0.746.g67dd491aae-goog